Ông nhấn mạnh rằng quyền không phải là "có nguồn gốc từ hoặc. . . tương đương với khẳng định về nhiệm vụ "bởi vì trong trường hợp này" câu hỏi liệu các đại lý đạo đức tôn trọng các quyền của người khác trở nên giống hệt với câu hỏi liệu họ sống lên đến nhiệm vụ của mình "(" cố hữu "24). | 208 CHAPTER FOUR Taylor s position is inconsistent. He insists that rights are not derived from or. . . equivalent to assertions about duties because in such a case the question of whether moral agents respect the rights of others becomes identical with the question of whether they live up to their duties Inherent 24 . Rights he insists are more than this. Given Taylor s direct parallels how can he logically assert that his environmental ethic can supplant anymal and plant rights while denying their efficacy as a replacement for human rights Taylor s theory demonstrates that respect for nature is not a replacement for moral rights. Taylor begins chapter six In this final chapter I consider the moral dilemmas that arise when human rights and values conflict with the good of non-humans Respect 256 . Can the simple good of all other entities compete fairly with the multitude of comprehensive rights Taylor protects for human animals Taylor s theory demonstrates that it cannot. There is bound to be tension between claiming that all living beings have equal inherent worth and only granting rights to humans Lombardi 257 . Indeed most of the difficulties of internal conflict in Taylor s theory stem from his tendency to favor human beings most prominently displayed in his affirmation of human rights and concurrent dismissal of anymal rights. Taylor cannot bring himself to completely renounce . . . special respect for persons and sometimes speaks of both systems of ethics respect for persons and respect for nature as if he were juggling two independent principles Callicott Case 107 . Taylor s acceptance of rights exclusively for Homo sapiens harms the internal consistency and protectionist qualities of his theory. Most flagrantly Taylor offers an environmental ethic to protect wild entities inclusive of the most civilized and unnatural of species humans yet excluding billions of domestic pets laboratory any-mals and food anymals that live severely truncated deprived and .
