My two cents: With freedom and rights comes responsibility and obligations. Animals have the right to a good quality life, as a technologically advanced species we humans have an obligation to not treat other lifeforms with cruelty. But to say that animals have any other right is ridiculous, because they have no responsibility to us or even themselves.
When I was young, there was a god with infinite power protecting me. Is there anyone else who felt that way? And was sure about it? but the first time I fell in love, I was thrown down - or maybe I broke free - and I bade farewell to God and became human. Now I don't have God's protection, and I walk on the ground without wings, but I don't regret this hardship. I want to live as a person. -Arina Tanemura
