RE: Any Vegetarians/Vegans here?
January 19, 2014 at 4:40 pm
(This post was last modified: January 19, 2014 at 4:40 pm by FlyingNarwhal.)
(January 19, 2014 at 3:27 pm)jg2014 Wrote: So do severely mentally disabled humans have rights? They cannot reciprocate any rights they have either. They do not understand the laws of man either. So what is it to be, do they have rights or not?
The fact is while correlative rights and duties are great for a legal system, they are nonsense when talking about ethics.
Yes they have rights because they are still expected to reciprocate those rights and if they don't there are consequences. An autistic kid that goes off the deep end and breaks someone's arm may be placed in an institution to prevent him from hurting anyone else, essentially limiting those rights like we would anyone else that breaks them. What you seem to argue for is that animals should be afforded the rights, but not allowed to face the consequences of the responsibility of those rights. I'm not allowed to kill animals because it's cruel, but other animals are allowed to kill each other and it's not cruel. Do you see the hypocrisy?
