General Audience Papers
Papers which are suitable for a general or lay audience.
These are papers written in a relatively non-technical fashion.
A Living Will Clause for Utilitarian Defenders of Invasive Animal Research
Should utilitarians sign a living will to be vivisected if they become mentally disabled?
David Sztybel PhD
A Statement from the Animals
What would nonhuman animals say if we translated the nonverbal into the verbal?
Dr David Sztybel
Abraham Lincoln: the Carefully Sanitized Liberator
This brief study suggests that liberators often need to be liberated from their own contradictions.
David Sztybel PhD
Animal Action!
A Guide for Animal Activists
David Sztybel PhD
Animal Liberation Language Guide
A guide adapted from Joan Dunayer's book, Animal Equality: Language and Liberation.
David Sztybel PhD editor
Animal Rights in Essence: Non-Violence
A distillation of animal rights in terms of ahimsa, a principle that originates from Jainism.
David Sztybel PhD
Anti-Vivisection Panel
YouTube broadcast of discussion at University of Toronto, April 21, 2010.
Sztybel;Tiefenbach;Wright
Anti-Vivisection and Anti-Violence
A strong ethical case against medical vivisection using the principle of non-violence.
David Sztybel PhD
Between the Silences: A Collection of David Sztybel's Aphorisms
Sayings and maxims that David has written over the years.
David Sztybel PhD
Chart of U.S. Laws Affecting African Americans
A supplement to the paper "Incrementalist Animal Law."
David Sztybel PhD
Common Fallacies to Avoid
A collection of common logical fallacies which occur in discussions.
David Sztybel PhD
Coping with Animal Rights Stress
A cognitive therapy tool for fighting stress caused by being a witness to speciesism.
David Sztybel PhD
Dances With Reason
Responses to Common Objections to Animal Rights.
David Sztybel PhD
Extending Our Circle of Compassion to Pigs
Reflections on perceiving and working with pigs.
David Sztybel PhD
Facing the Facts of Animal Treatment
Awareness of some of the violent practices to which nonhuman animals are routinely subjected.
David Sztybel PhD
Favourite Quotes from Various Sources
A compilation of David's favourite quotes.
David Sztybel (editor)
Fundamentalism vs Pragmatism (Mirror Productions)
Anti-cruelty laws can sometimes be ethically acceptable.
David Sztybel PhD
Giving Credence to Philosophical Creeds
Ethical veganism as a legal religion.
David Sztybel PhD
How I Became Vegan
An account of the author's journey to veganism.
David Sztybel PhD
Incrementalist Animal Law: Welcome to the Real World
Historically, U.S. rights legislation is all incrementalist as opposed to anti-incrementalist.
David Sztybel PhD
Levels of Harmful Discrimination
Does speciesism exist? If efforts are made to exploit animals "humanely," is it really humane or what we can call "animal welfare"? Or is it rather "animal illfare"? Use this analysis in terms of levels of harmful discrimination to arrive at your own answers!
David Sztybel PhD
Maria Sztybel, A Fight for Life
Hauntingly interesting in itself and in the context of the Holocaust Comparison Project.
David Sztybel PhD
Milestones in Animal Rights and Animal Welfare
Various achievements in animal rights and welfare.
David Sztybel PhD
Motivating Yourself to Study: A Student's Guide
Are you or do you know a student with motivational difficulties?
David Sztybel PhD
Non-Violent Protest: Love-Based versus Anger-Based
An experiment in working towards non-violence for humans and other animals.
Dr. David Sztybel
Progressive versus Anti-Progressive Academics
Disillusioned with academics? It is NOT all the same ...
David Sztybel PhD
Selected Poems
Written by David Sztybel, plus his favorite poem (Tennyson's Ulysses), with an analysis.
David Sztybel PhD
Selected Readings on Animal Rights Incrementalism
Should animal rights advocates support anti-cruelty laws?
David Sztybel PhD
Sztybelian Pragmatism versus Francionist Pseudo-Pragmatism
The discussion provides comparative expectations of animal suffering and death.
David Sztybel PhD
The Canadian Council on Animal Care's Ethics Code: A Critical Evaluation
A critical evaluation of the Canadian Council on Animal Care's ethics code.
David Sztybel PhD
The Holocaust Comparison Project
Patterns of similarity between animal abuse and the Holocaust: a photographic essay.
David Sztybel PhD
The Rights of Animal Persons (Mirror Productions)
Assessing speciesism, liberation, and best caring ethics as compared to other moral theories.
David Sztybel PhD
The Vegan Challenge: Being Able to Look Big Tom Right in the Eye
An essay in support of doing the Vegan Challenge in the workplace.
Jana Crawford and David Sztybel
Tools for Shutting Down Francionists at AR Meetings
Some tools for shutting this disruptive element down in 5 minutes.
David Sztybel PhD
Vegan (Tr)eats!
Meals and more for the animals, your health and the Earth!
David Sztybel and Cassandra Prince
Veganism vs Violence
Two versions of this paper aimed at thoughtful, mature people on Veganism and Violence.
David Sztybel PhD
Winning the Animal Rights Debate
We need to seek a new ethics of animal rights.
David Sztybel PhD
Note: Activists might take an interest in a series of technical papers on, for example, the more fully stated living will argument regarding vivisection, the Holocaust comparison, how to argue for animal protection, whether animal rightists should only use animal rights arguments, resort to anti-cruelty laws, and how animal rights activism can relate to Marxism.
