ANIMAL RIGHTS DEBATES From time to time I participate in philosophical debate on several Objectivist and Libertarian email discussion groups (Objectivism at We the Living (OWL), Sentients Rights, Atlantis2, and Humanities, Philosophy, Objectivism (HPO.)  What follows are debates from some of these lists.  I have omitted many of the irrelevant posts that were submitted to the list.  I will be adding more as I sort them.  Names have been changed to protect the guilty:-) CONTENTS PART I 1.  Emotionalism Charge Against Animal Rights Advocates 2.  Is Rationality Necessary For Rights? 3.  Is Reciprocity Necessary for Rights? 4.  Is Being the Member of a Certain Species Nexessary for Rights? 5.  Species Normality Argument 6.  Marginal Cases Argument 7. Potentiality Argument 8. Indirect Duty Argument 9.  Conceptuality and Objectivist Volition