VISUAL PROJECTIONS OF ETHICAL AND LAW PROBLEMS IN THE ACTIVITY OF RUSSIAN ANIMAL WELFARE
DOI: 10.23951/2312-7899-2017-1-76-85
The article attempts to analyze the expression of ethical and legal issues in the activities of animal welfare organizations. We consider the visualization of some problems embodied in a series of social projects (for example Tomsk animal welfare organization «Sodruzestvo»). We used the rules and principles of bioethics to find common vectors. In the article there is an effort to analyze animal welfare organizations and its activity and visual expression of the ethical and legal problems in this area. The growth of voluntary initiatives and animal welfare funds, the increasing interest in animals and their use by people in various fields and inhuman treatment detect the failure in the legislative field of regulating and their protection from cruel, inhuman treatment. Also there are questions about giving animals the same status and rights, and the conclusions about the division into those who receive more protection or does not have it at all. In considering this problem it is necessary to use foreign experience in relation to granting and protecting the rights of animals, the gradual movement of humanity in relation to different types of animals, depending on their use. Analysis of the animal welfare organizations, their goals, aims and work directions has helped to highlight some external and internal challenges. An example of the animal welfare social projects shows the solutions encountered difficulties in volunteers’ activities. Interrelations between symbolization of the volunteers’ purposes and the purposes of bioethics are revealed. To identify the discussed application’s characteristics were used rules and principles of bioethics. There are parallels between human rights protection during their medical treatment and the same rights in medical treatment of animals.
Keywords: bioethics, visualizations, volunteers, volunteering, animals welfare
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