PENGATURAN MENGENAI SATWA SEBAGAI UPAYA PENCEGAHAN POTENSI PANDEMI DI MASA DEPAN

Humans have been hit by pandemics several times during the history of humanity. Several pandemics have resulted in very significant human casualties. The Spanish flu in 1918 had an estimated toll of up to 50 million people. In 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic has infected humans with more than 100,000,000 infected victims and reached more than 200 countries with more than 2,000,000 human victims. Almost all pandemics are caused by disease mutations from animals to humans, which are called zoonoses. The human desire to live a better life and the desire to rule the universe by killing animals. This research is a normalitve juridical study. This research concludes that animal law is needed in line with environmental law to protect humans based on an axiological approach. In addition to protecting, this law also serves to limit human freedom in behavior.Manusia telah dilanda beberapa kali pandemi selama sejarah kemanusiaan. Beberapa pandemik telah mengakibatkan jumlah korban yang sangat signifikan pada manusia. Spanish flu pada tahun 1918 telah mengakibatkan korban diperkirakan berjumlah hingga 50 juta manusia. Pada tahun 2020, pandemi Covid-19 telah menyangkit manusia dengan korban yang terinfeksi lebih dari 100.000.000 manusia dan menjangkau lebih dari 200 negara dengan korban lebih dari 2.000.000 manusia. Hampir semua pandemi diakibatkan oleh mutasi penyakit dari binatang ke manusia atau disebut dengan zoonosis. Keinginan manusia untuk hidup lebih baik dan keinginan untuk menguasai alam semesta dengan melakukan pembunuhan terhadap binatang. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian yuridis normalitf. Penelitian ini menyimpulkan bahwa diperlukannya hukum satwa sejalan dengan hukum lingkungan untuk melindungi manusia berdasarkan pendekatan aksiologi. Selain untuk melindungi, hukum ini juga berfungsi untuk membatasi kebebasan manusia dalam bertingkah laku.

Against Dignity: An Argument for a Non-Metaphysical Foundation of Animal Law

Animal protection as an emerging field of legislation needs to be constitutionalized as well as comprehensively expounded by legal scholars. As it is a growing body of regulation and accompanying legal theories, it needs to develop a solid conceptual and axiological framework, in particular a set of basic values and principles on which detailed rules are to be founded. Lacking these, the domain of animal law is still in the pre-paradigm stage and remains an assemblage of dispersed ideas, concepts and regulatory measures. It yet has to develop into a coherent whole that may grow to be a mature regulatory and doctrinal domain of the law. In order to reach this stage, it should be founded on clear theoretical and constitutional grounds. Lacking those, its further development, and effective operation may be seriously impeded. There seem to be two basic approaches that may serve as the possible foundations for a viable model of animal protection law. The first may be referred to as the “dignity” approach and the other, as the “sentientist” approach. According to the first of those two approaches, animal protection law should rely on the concept of animal dignity as its philosophical foundation. The second approach rejects the idea that the concept of animal dignity as the basis for the relevant legislation as philosophically dubious and entailing objectionable normative consequences for the scope and content of legal protections of animals. Thus, it aims rather at legal norms and policies being based directly on scientifically informed theories of sentience, evolutionarily developed nervous structures underlying cognitive and emotional capabilities or species-typical biological and psychological needs that condition the subjective well-being of a given creature. The aim of this paper is to analyse and discuss both these approaches and to argue that the former is philosophically, conceptually and practically flawed. The second approach, even despite some serious disadvantages, is therefore deemed to be preferable and more promising.