The historian of ethics William Lecky once observed that the great moral movement of history is the “expanding circle” of moral concern—from tribe to nation, from nation to all races, and from all races to sentient beings. The debate between animal welfare and animal rights is not a static opposition but a dialectic. Welfare represents the first recognition of the “other’s” suffering; rights represents the final demand for their sovereignty.
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