Animals Deserve No Rights

Animals Deserve No Rights

Summary: Nowadays, with an increasing number of reports about animal cruelty coming into the public view, an agitation about protecting animal right caught our attention. As far as I 'm concerned, quite a few people believe that excluding non-human animals from the range of concern but to include all humans just seems arbitrary and unreasonable. However an overwhelming number of people still share the same idea with me that animals don 't deserve rights. At first glance, my assertion that animals deserve no rights, seems to be inhumane to ignore the pain of animals. Nonetheless you 'll find the reasonable idea comes from a tight though then. From the pragmatic standpoint, you 'll find animal experiment indispensable. Besides, animals aren 't in possession of the ingredients that a rights owning man should have. Taking these into consideration, we can see that it 's irrational to give animals rights.

Facing the common phenomena that animals are abused mercilessly in various ways, some Chinese animal-rights activists refute that it 's a prejudice to exploit animals willfully but ignore their pain. What 's more, they also firmly argue that we should ban animal experiments altogether because subjecting animals to experimentation is unwarranted on moral grounds. They even use documentation as persuasive evidence to convince the public that performing experiments on animals should be regarded as an evil behavior. They show that animals are treated dreadfully in farms, laboratories, zoos and many other places. For example, there are hundreds of grim factories where thousands of live bears are suffering the harm and pain of being trapped in tiny cages and extracting their bile for medicine. At the same time, many animals like sheep and rabbits are fed to the lions alive just for spectators ' cheers while ignoring their pain at safari parks. ⅱ However, no matter how persuasive the opinion of the protester is, there is still an overwhelming number of people who share the same idea with me that advancement of science necessitates animal testing and conducting experiments on animals is reasonable. At the first glance of our idea, it 's maybe inhumane, nevertheless, after having a second thought, we can see that, from a more pragmatic standpoint, evidence abounds that animal subjects are still an indispensable part of scientific research at this stage of human development. For instance, drug experimentation on live mammals is, indisputably, far more effective than experimentation on bacteria or on other lower species in determining drug safety. Furthermore, medical history also informs that drugs that can potentially exert grave side effects on human beings must be tested by pharmaceutical companies on live mammals first to ascertain their toxicity. In the second place, in space research, live animals are still practical alternatives on a flight not considered to be sufficiently safe for human astronauts. And it would be hard to imagine that human lives should be put at stake when the objective of the space mission is merely to identify living creatures ' reaction to the outer space experience. Besides the viewpoints as we have stated, we can also tell the irrationality of animal rights from the logic. First, based on the definition of rights, we can draw a conclusion that the holder of rights must have intelligence, judgment and the ability to take responsibility for what he did. However, there is no doubt that animals are not in possession of such essential factors. Under this background, it 's unreasonable to talk about animal rights. What 's more, the great philosopher Rousseau said, humans evolved from the animal, and unlike other animals that " lack of intelligence and freedomⅰ, which also demonstrate that human beings are superior to animals, and animals don 't deserve the same rights as humans. Finally I concede that experiments upon animals may have bad effects on the innocent animals and other members of nature are also important, in light of the fact that it generates outcomes consistently suffering to the test animals. However, it is generally arguable that there are no practical alternatives to this methodology at the current stage of scientific development. On balance, I firmly believe that animal test shouldn 't be banned entirely. On the flip side, we also should try our best to relieve animals "pain by advanced techniques. (554words)
References
ⅰJean-Jacques Rousseau,《Discourse on the Origin of Inequality》，GuangXi province ，GuangXi Normal University press，2009 ⅱWikipedia，11 Dec 2012，Jimmy Donal Wales，13 Dec 2012，http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/animal rights

References: ⅰJean-Jacques Rousseau,《Discourse on the Origin of Inequality》，GuangXi province ，GuangXi Normal University press，2009 ⅱWikipedia，11 Dec 2012，Jimmy Donal Wales，13 Dec 2012，http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/animal rights