Transcript Resolved: Justice requires the recognition of animal rights.

Resolved: Justice requires the
recognition of animal rights.
Topic Analysis
What is Justice?
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What are some ideas relating to justice?
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Fairness
Reasonable cause
Equality
Social contract
Law - judicial system
Punishment - Eye for an eye
Deterrence/prevention
What are animals?
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Any living organism
Any heterotrophic organism
Any living being that is not a human
What are rights?
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Give examples of rights:
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Life
Freedom / Liberty
Religion
Speech
Pursuit of Happiness / Property
Justice - Legal Rights
Political rights
Not to be harmed/hurt - Safety
Security
Affirmative Ideas
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Fairness means protecting the rights of all living
beings (i.e. unfair to only focus on humans)
Define humans as animals --> should protect
Animals can feel the same amount of pain as humans
Animals can’t protect themselves, so as humans, we
ought to protect them
Animals can communicate and are fairly intelligent
Justice system already protects some animal rights
Animals provide things for humans
Without protection, we may endanger the
environment/ecosystem
Negative Ideas
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Protecting all animals rights is expensive
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Compare animals’ worth to humans’
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Save more human lives $$$
Value of human contribution vs. animal
Animals are not culpable
Infringing on animals’ rights is a necessary evil
Population control
Forming an Argument
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Claim – the bottom line statement
Warrant – the reasoning/evidence
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A quotation from an expert
Data and/or statistics
Logical reasoning
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Impact – the consequences/effect
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Arguments that lack any one of the above are BAD
arguments
Identify the Claim-Warrant-Impact
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The death penalty should be abolished because it
kills innocent people. In doing so, we would save
innocent lives.
Everybody should eat pizza because it tastes good.
Everybody would then have a tasty meal.
There should be a speed limit in school zones
because there is a lot of pedestrian traffic around a
school. As a result, there will be fewer accidents
and lives will be saved.
Examples of weak arguments
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Chocolate ice cream is better than vanilla
All students should have GPS attached to them so
that parents will know where they are at all times.
All intersections around a school should be 4-way
stops in order to prevent accidents.
Everybody should possess nuclear weapons because
if everybody has them, then nobody will use them
and we will have peace.
Picking apart an argument
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Attack the claim, warrant, or impact
Attack the link between them
Introduce counter-evidence
Introduce other impacts
Look for anything weird
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Circular argument
Contradictions
Etc.
Assignment for Monday (9/19/11)
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Use the evidence packet, specifically:
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Position and Argument Starters (Aff & Neg)
Selected Evidence/Quotations on the Topic (Aff
& Neg) – Do *not* read in entirety. You can
skim by reading the taglines, and then read the
quotation if you like the tagline
Construct 3 Aff and 3 Neg arguments using
the Claim-Warrant-Impact template
Example Aff Argument
Claim: Protecting animal rights will help save the environment
Warrant: “Factory farming as web know it—and its devastating
environmental effects—would not be possible if we were to
criminalize cruelty to agricultural animals. Fewer agricultural
animals will necessarily translate to less methane and other
greenhouse gas emissions, less water consumption and
pollution, and less erosion of topsoil.”
– Kyle Landis-Marinello
Impact: By protecting animals’ rights in factory farms, we would
be taking another step towards reducing pollution and
preserving the environment for the future.