Abstract Agency is central to humans’ individual rights and their organization as a community. Human agency recognized in the Universal Declaration of Rights through guaranteed rights, such right life, basic education, freedom expression, form personal relationships, which all protect humans from tyranny oppression. Though studies animal consistently suggest that we grossly underestimate capaci...

In the second paragraph of"Domesticated and Then Some," Professor Duran characterizes her topic as "the question of the moral significance, from the standpoint of animal rights, of whether or not a species is domesticated." Her question, so stated, is crucially ambiguous. Is it Ql) What can be said about the moral significance of an individual animal in virtue of its being a member of a domesti...