Journal for Critical Animal Studies, Volume 10, Issue 2, 2012 (ISSN1948-352X) Beyond Dehumanization: A Post-Humanist Critique of Solitary Confinement Lisa Guenther Abstract What does it mean to be treated like a nonhuman animal? In this paper, I analyze the discourse of “dehumanization” in Madrid v Gomez, a 1995 Eighth Amendment case concerning the treatment of prisoners at California’s Pelican Bay Supermax Penitentiary. I argue that the language of dehumanization fails to describe the harm
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Culture of Cruelty,” From Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys by Daniel J. Kindlon and Michael Thompson shows that human discriminate because of cultural differences. This relates to civil rights because that every human respect and get respect from others. And it is against the human right law to discriminate people. I am interested in this topic in this because I want learn, discover and know how people are discriminated against because of their different skin color, culture and many
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Animal Cruelty It’s dark, quiet, and you’re all by yourself. You whine and yell for help but nobody seems to hear you. The people you thought were your family abandoned you, left you all alone in a small confined cage. There is no place to use the bathroom, other than where you stand. The awful stench of your faeces grows worse and worse each second. The only food they left you with, you ate in the first day. Now the only thing keeping you alive is your desperation to eat and drink your own
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Imagine that you are going to the animal shelter to adopt a kitten. You adopt the cutest one there. On your way home you notice that the kitten seems so happy that it is now going to have a home. Instead, when you get home you put the cat in stocks for a month, all the while you’re either force feeding it, depriving it of food and water, burning it, or hitting it all this because you can! Until finally you strangle it, break its neck and then decapitate it to make sure it’s dead. Feel uncomfortable
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Animal Rights First of you might ask what is animal rights? Well, animal rights are rights believed to belong to animals to live free from use in medical research, services to humans. The earliest animal rights has been around (theory, proposal or project wise) is by Percy Bysshe Shelley ,born from 1792-1822, it doesn’t exactly say when he proposed the idea but it had to have been early 1800’s. The first time it became a real thing was in 1970 by richard D. Ryder and was known as speciesism
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Capitalists claim people are rewarded for their efforts but can’t explain economic inequality from birth. Someone born into a poor household does not “deserve” their misfortune just as a wealthy baby did not “earn” the benefits of wealth. The socialist’s weakest argument is that profit by increasing a product’s price is “dishonest”. Dishonesty requires one party’s failure to recognize that they are being
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an enslaved race they had been destroyed, reduced in society to the level of draught animals. And even after the abolishment of slavery their role was largely a dehumanized and devalued one. If you know anything about psychology, devaluing and abusing someone tends to make them devalue themselves, lowering their self-esteem and making them think they deserve abuse and can't be as good as others and don't deserve good things. Think
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To What Extent was the Canadian Government Treatment of the First Nation of the Prairies Justified The rights of the Natives did not truly recognized by the government. Since white people came to this territory, they did no consider the Natives as a part of the residents. However, it was the Natives who were the first to live and develop on this land. The Canadian government had signed treaties with the Natives and moved them to the prairies, where the crops could hardly grow on. They also forced
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Voices Not Heard Seeing the face of a helpless animal can break your heart. Many animals go through torturous testing on a day to day basis that they cannot help, nor can they defend themselves. Since Ancient Greek times, animals have been undergoing cruel and inhumane medical testing that should not be done for the benefits of the human race. Animal testing is wrong because it is cruel, costly, harmful to animals, unreliable, and outdated. Animal testing has been around since the times of the
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Animals are routinely severed, poisoned, starved and confined for weeks at times all for the well-being of humans. Sadly, the number of advances found through animal testing is remarkably faint compared to the number of living organisms being persecuted in the process. Animal testing is used to assess the safety and effectiveness of everything from cosmetics to medication, as well as understanding how the human body works. Animal testing is brutally inhumane, and unreliable especially considering
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