Rectifying the human-pet relationship

• Main Author: Chee, Yiren
• Other Authors: Preston Huw Richards Greene
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2020
• Subjects: Humanities::Philosophy
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/137441
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The human-pet relationship is seen as an owner-property kind from a legal perspective. However, there are certain situations which appeals to our intuitions that we should not treat pets as property. For example, we would agree that there is nothing impermissible about intentionally throwing one’s s...