인간의 법을 통해 바라본 동물의 죽음에 관한 소고

Animals are used for humans lives in various ways. Mostly, it is for our benefits on the condition that they are to die. Therefore, animal usages that leads to their death are conducted based on legal justification. Yet the animal life is also controlled by natural bio-system as human life does. So, for justifying unnatural curtailment of animal life, ethically justifying with universally acceptable reasons would be required other than simple reasons based on human interests, customs, and amusements. Therefore, this article tries to answer following questions in logical perspectives: First, which rationalization for reality is underlying under the positive legal justification for animal use? Second, what critical arguments against those justification are. To carry out such topics, this research takes following steps: First, this article will discuss the relation between animal death and human life in Korean society. Second, this study will review the animal legal status in Korea and current Korean laws covering animal death. Lastly, it will analyze arguments of rationalization and critiques of its reality. Especially, when it comes to the arguments concerning the diverse critiques, this study will focus on Singer’s utilitarianism, Regan’s animal right theory, and environmental ethics. Through the above arguments, this article seeks to find the more catholic ethics on how human should deal with animals.