Everyday Morality and Animal Rights

Morality in everyday life.

The science of morality has drawn heavily on well-controlled but artificial laboratory settings. To study everyday morality, we repeatedly assessed moral or immoral acts and experiences in a large (N = 1252) sample using ecological momentary assessment. Moral experiences were surprisingly frequent and manifold. Liberals and conservatives emphasized somewhat different moral dimensions. Religious...

Sustainability, Morality and Future Rights

Animal liberators: research and morality

"demographic time-bomb", and Project 2000, the authors provocatively conclude that even in the next century the handywomen/supportworker will still provide care,-"No elitist programme of nursing has yet been allowed to succeed. Would an alternative based on open entry and continuing opportunity have more prospects of serving both the occupation and its public?" Currently this must be the best s...

Ethics, Morality and Animal Biotechnology

Marketing Morality: The Future of the Extremist Animal Rights Movement in America

Class of 2009 Human Biology, English The animal rights movement, initially founded by a few ethicists writing about the animal interest in avoiding suffering, blossomed into what it is today in the past twenty years. Now, groups such as People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) are facing a dilemma common to all rising grass-roots organizations: how is it possible to achieve widespread...