Other animals have the same rights as us.
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Vuk (below) writes: "Humans aren't animals you fool."
I love that.
It captures the essence of the internet, don't you think?
Oh, man, and siar writes "call me spiciest but i believe that humanity is the one that matters most we are at the top of the food chain"
Tragic Typos has nothing on this boy.
2007-08-02 03:10:25
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answered by Anonymous
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I don't understand your question. Humans are animals. We do have the same rights as other animals. The right to try to survive. I am not sure how much experience you have had with nature, but it can be very cruel. For the cycle of life to continue, it has to be this way. If you change any of the steps, you upset the balance. Say for example, that you eliminate all mice on earth. Now we all know this could not happen, but this is just hypothetical. The cycle of prey and predator is upset. Now, the animals that used to feed on the mice also go extinct and so on, up the line until all animal life is wiped out. You might say, what about the animals that don't eat other creatures. Well, because you no longer have anyone preying on these animals they start to multiply and if left go long enough there would no longer be enough plants for them. Any way you look at it you cannot eliminate links in the chain of life. This includes humans. We just happen to be at the top of the chain. It is essential to all life and this is how it is supposed to work, cruel though it may be. Because we are intelligent, we unlike other animals can see how our actions effect the chain of life. Because of this we have a responsibility to all of nature to not be exploitative. For the overall good, we cannot stop killing other animals. At the same time we should only kill for what we need and not what we want. What you suggest is unnatural and nothing more than a fantasy. It can never happen. Not if you want life to continue the way it is meant to. In light of this, dedicate your time and energy to that which really does hurt nature and exploits the environment. All of us animals, mice and human alike will be better off for it.
2007-08-02 04:02:31
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answered by Danny 6
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This is not really about rights. This is just about what happens.
Animals kill each other all the time, showing their lack of concern for the "right to survive." Such ideas as the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness exist only in human society where rules and regulations are set up to ensure that we have a civilization rather than dog-eat-dog anarchy. I will eat meat.
And, as someone else asked, what about plants? Perhaps you should not eat anything, as all living things should have a "right" to live.
Now, when it comes to animals being subjected to torturous conditions, I am not happy... but what can I do? I can't even know how every business manages its food sources, so I can't come to any decision about it. It's sad, but the other part of me says that it's necessary to feed this many people in our world. I wish humans would stop having so many babies...
2007-08-02 04:06:13
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answered by Skye 5
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The same lack of rights maybe.
I don't believe in "rights" in any case.
If I want to grab some other animal (be it human or rabbit or whatever) by the neck... shake it around... chop parts of it off and eat some then throw the rest away...... then I will. If I want to pour chemicals in its eyes to see what happens... I will.
But if a crocodile decides to grab me by the leg and drag me into the river to eat me... do you expect my complaining about rights at it is going to matter? Do you think a reticulated python would care about my comfort as it crushes every bone in my body then swallows me alive?
Other animals don't believe in "rights" so nor do I. Not toward anyone nor anything.
I judge all species by the same standards.... and those are the same standards nature judges by: survival of the fittest.
2007-08-02 03:18:23
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answered by Anonymous
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The rights of living scales with the level of self awareness,All living things must eat..That's not wrong.The right to life depends on the impact each death has on the surviving population,Most Human cultures think our ability to reason with moral judgment about the right to life gives us more rights and obligations to the demands our own society says is right or wrong.Being able to understand this gives humans more rights.
2007-08-02 04:01:36
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answered by Sparkie 2
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specific. permit that mouse consume a number of your foodstuff and use something as a bathroom. permit that mosquito suck your blood and supply you malaria. do no longer %. off that tick; how else will you get Lyme ailment? and incredibly, feed that tapeworm; that's a stable thank you to drop some pounds without weight-reduction plan. permit's additionally inspire each and every of the Canada ducks that foul up the lawns and golf classes. It makes golf extra exciting once you will possibly desire to putt with an adjustment for goose manure caught to the ball. in the wild, such pests are killed or pushed off. isn't it time that people had the comparable rights as different animals do?
2016-10-09 01:25:47
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answered by yarnall 3
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Funnily enough I disagree with every possibility you've included. I don't think humans and animals should have the same rights, I don't think humans should have the right to kill any other animal (we shouldn't kill animals which are self-aware or endangered, or other people's property) and I don't believe that it shouldn't be the other way around (if you're stupid enough to be eaten by another animal, that's your bad luck).
2007-08-02 03:22:23
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answered by Anonymous
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I do have some warring feelings within me about this one. I'm a carnivore but I also believe in the rights of animals. I do believe we have the "right" to eat them, but to kill them in a humane way. Since we are pretty much on top of the food chain we don't have many predators out to eat US, but if we did, that would be the way of nature. I wouldn't want to be a tiger's dinner, but part of me would understand that he had as much right to eat me as I do to eat a cow.
2007-08-02 03:10:38
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answered by Cheryl E 7
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God made man with more rights than the animals.
But because of man's sins, people came to eat animals (not to mention other people) and animals started to eat other animals and people.
But when God makes a new Heaven and a new earth, man and animals will live in peace again like in the beginning.
2007-08-02 03:12:51
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answered by tim 6
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call me spiciest but i believe that humanity is the one that matters most we are at the top of the food chain like any predator on this planet and have as much right to kill and eat as any species if they try to attack us they will probably suffer the consequence(death)
(this is probably a evolutionary trait to ensure survival of the species )
2007-08-02 03:12:41
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answered by Anonymous
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