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Should keep mentally retarded "pets"?
friendship isnt slavery
Your analogy is true in some ways but flawed in others. The relationship between a slave master and a slave are possibly 99.9% of the time, are the degrading, violent, inhumane treatment of another. This is true only if animals were put through long hours of intensive labor, working hours before the sun had rising and still working many hours after the sun had set. That obviously isnt the case, though you can make that analogy if such an animal was being inhumanly treated under abuse where animals are put through degrading violent treatment, but if an animal was in a healthy and loving household were they were part of the family, why is that considered slavery? Also i dont understand how pets or animal companions are "stripped of basic rights"? As a dog owner, he has the right to eat, sleep, live, breathe...are you looking for the right of freedom?? well unfortunatly if i gave him that right he would run right out the door and into four lane traffic. You say that dogs and cats dont need us but there are millions of dogs and cats that are homeless or in shelters that need our help so they can live better lives instead of rotting in a cage. And also dogs and cats, for example, cant just suddenly roam free because then dogs and cats will be piling up the roadside along side with deer, raccoons, and many other animals killed by humans. The reality of the situation is that animal companion will always need us because we humans have made it that way. With all the conservation going on around the world, and human influence of animal i can imagine centuries from now wild and exotic animals such as tigers being a domesticated animal.
- jablonkas319
July 19, 2009 2:54AM
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