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The first claim by Fox is that only autonomous beings qualify for rights. Fox conceptualizes autonomous beings in a holistic perspective rather than by looking at the specific attributes of these creatures separately. According to him these creatures belong to a moral community, which he defines as, “a group of beings that shares certain characteristics and whose members are or consider themselves to be bound to observe certain rules of conduct in relation to one another because of their mutual likeness.” (Fox, 2006, p.182) These shared attributes include critical self-awareness, manipulation of complicated ...
