On the 4th of August, 2004, Professor Tom Regan appeared on the BBC Radio 4 series, The Moral Maze. He was asked a number of questions and had a few ethical scenarios presented to him, some of which Regan found rather bizarre. In the last question of Regan's slot on the show, he was asked about the moral status of pets and whether they deserve their freedom.
Tom Regan was nothing if not an honest man and so, rather than offering some sound bite or dodging the question, he said that this is a difficult issue. Animal advocates who often seem to believe that they require to have a snappy answer to every conceivable question can learn from Tom Regan because here he "admits" that advocates may not know the answer to everything, as though we have a well developed blueprint of the future to simply lay out before an audience.
However, Regan then asserts that there are some things that rights-based animal advocates do know for sure and that is that systematic use of other animals are rights violations.
​Enjoy...
Tom Regan was nothing if not an honest man and so, rather than offering some sound bite or dodging the question, he said that this is a difficult issue. Animal advocates who often seem to believe that they require to have a snappy answer to every conceivable question can learn from Tom Regan because here he "admits" that advocates may not know the answer to everything, as though we have a well developed blueprint of the future to simply lay out before an audience.
However, Regan then asserts that there are some things that rights-based animal advocates do know for sure and that is that systematic use of other animals are rights violations.
​Enjoy...
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