In The Case for Animal Rights, Regan (1983) argues that all nonhuman animals who are subjects-of-a-life have inherent worth and are thus entitled to the right to respectful treatment. Having the right to respectful treatment, according to Regan, entails that one should “never be treated merely as a means to securing the best aggregate consequences” (Regan 1983, 249). Although Regan maintains that the right to respectful treatment, in its most basic form, confers on moral agents a prima facie negative duty not to harm subjects-of-a-life in order to maximize social utility, he also acknowledges that there are certain conditions under which the right to respectful treatment imposes positive duties on moral agents, such as the duty to assist those who are the “victims of injustice at the hands of others” (Regan 1983, 249).

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如何在受到伤害时提供帮助：援助不公正受害者的问题

在 The Case for Animal Rights 中，Regan (1983) 认为所有作为生命主体的非人类动物都具有内在价值，因此有权获得尊重对待。根据 Regan 的说法，拥有受到尊重对待的权利意味着一个人不应“仅仅被视为获得最佳综合结果的一种手段”（Regan 1983, 249）。尽管里根坚持认为，以最基本的形式获得尊重对待的权利赋予道德主体一种表面上的消极义务，即不伤害生活对象以最大化社会效用，但他也承认存在某些条件在这种情况下，尊重待遇的权利对道德行为者施加了积极的义务，例如帮助那些“他人不公正的受害者”的人的义务（Regan 1983, 249）。