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This 4 page paper uses the novel Elizabeth Costello as a springboard for discussion. Animal rights are discussed and ethics to come from Greek philosophy is used in the analysis. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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mainstream. Today, rogue groups are becoming more and more popular and people accept vegetarianism, for example, on moral grounds. Yet, while that is the case, the majority of people eat
meat and still have pets. They live their lives in a world where animals are owned and sometimes abused and when the abuse is significant, there are protests. People do
not like animal abuse and there are laws against cruelty to animals. Even though they are slaughtered in plants for food, there is the notion that tormenting any creature is
inhumane. Yet, there are those who believe that animal rights should be much more significant than what exists today. They see animals as free creatures, in their own right, and
that man has no business deciding what is to be done to them. In life, as in literature, there are people who love animals and fight for their rights. In
Coetzees Elizabeth Costello, the protagonist is an author, who gives a speech on the human treatment of animals. In it, she compares the treatment of animals to the treatment of
Holocaust victims. While may would dismiss the protagonists ideas because the animals after all are not human, there is a retort to that. She says: "The question should not be:
Do we have something in common-reason, self-consciousness, a soul-with other animals? (With the corollary that, if we do not, then we are entitled to treat them as we like, imprisoning
them, killing them, dishonouring their corpses.)1" The argument is excellent because there is no plausible reason for man to kill animals. Man uses intellect to capture, torture and
kill animals that do not have the wherewithal to escape. It is not always that man is bigger even though he is larger than many animals, and it is not
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