Last year Leona Helmsley left $12 million to her dog, Trouble, setting off a heated courtroom battle. California just passed a proposition that says farm animals must be humanely caged. The legal line between humans and animals is blurring further everyday. When it comes to "animal rights," should your cocker spaniel be entitled to the same freedoms and protections as your kid?
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Making Rights of the Question
As an ethical vegan and an animal rights supporter I think the question itself in this debate is actually antagonistic and combative. People who frame the animal rights issue in this way with a question like this do not actually ever want to deal with the real aspects of responsibility involved with this issue. The problem here is if one should answer yes to the question you will most likely be perceived as not living in reality and deservingly so. If you answer no you will merely appear as a statistic at the side of the page and will be probably lumped in with arrogant insensitive human chauvinists. The people who ask the question if animals should have the exact same rights as humans are to me... pretty much the same type of people who ask......Dude, should carrots have rights?.... when confronted with questions regarding animal abuse, animal advocacy or animal rights.
- Phat P
November 20, 2008 1:11AM
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