Argument Paper on Animal Rights
If you had the choice to live or die which would you choose? If you had the alternative to live in a cage or in a house which would you select? If you had the option to have experiments that caused you pain preformed on you would you? The truth is that most of use would rather live, reside in a house and would not be a part of an experiment that caused us pain. However, most people accept the elements of the above conditions for non-human animals. Non-human animals should not be a part of destruction, pain, incarceration and underprivileged conditions that are caused by humans. Animal right's is a movement of individuals that support giving non-human animals life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. "People who support animal rights believe that animals are not ours to use for food, clothing, entertainment, experimentation, or any other purpose" (PETA, FAQ) This movement is different form animal welfare which is what most individuals are aware of "Animal welfare theories accept that animals have interests but allow those interests to be traded away as long as the human benefits are thought to justify the sacrifice, while animal rights theories say that animals, like humans, have interests that cannot be sacrificed or traded away to benefit others." (PETA, FAQ)
The controversial process of how animals are treated has existed for many generations, up to now we have been unsuccessful in reaching an understanding. Even in religion people have different views "Jainism, which enjoins ahimsa ("noninjury") [sic] toward all living things, and Buddhism, which forbids the needless killing of animals [ ].traditional Judaism and Christianity taught that animals were created by God for human use,." (Encyclopedia Britannica) There are many different opinions some say that "Animals [ ] lack this capacity for free moral judgment. They are not beings of a kind capable of exercising or responding to moral claims. Animals therefore have no rights, and they can have none."( Cohen,
The controversial process of how animals are treated has existed for many generations, up to now we have been unsuccessful in reaching an understanding. Even in religion people have different views "Jainism, which enjoins ahimsa ("noninjury") [sic] toward all living things, and Buddhism, which forbids the needless killing of animals [ ].traditional Judaism and Christianity taught that animals were created by God for human use,." (Encyclopedia Britannica) There are many different opinions some say that "Animals [ ] lack this capacity for free moral judgment. They are not beings of a kind capable of exercising or responding to moral claims. Animals therefore have no rights, and they can have none."( Cohen,
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