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Animal rights isn’t the first cause to encounter knee-jerk resistance. For example, while it is clearly wrong to oppress women—and always has been wrong—this has only recently become the consensus. In response to Mary Wollstonecraft??€™s groundbreaking A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, eighteenth-century philosopher Thomas Taylor published the dismissive satire A Vindication of the Rights of Brutes, sneering that the arguments for women’s rights were also applicable to animals and that this amounted to a reductio ad absurdum of Wollstonecraft?...
PETA and other animal rights advocates represent an analogous challenge to the twenty-first century’s status quo. Most of eighteenth-century society joined Taylor in smirking at Wollstonecraft??€™s folly, but some people dared to question the prevailing view that women did not deserve rights. Today, the animal liberation movement follows in the path of Wollstonecraft and other reformers, and PETA will tirelessly endeavor to persuade more and more people to put aside prejudice and dare to question the oppression of animals...
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