RE: Slavery and eating animals
February 5, 2015 at 10:22 pm
(This post was last modified: February 5, 2015 at 10:23 pm by Dystopia.)
(February 2, 2015 at 3:11 am)Grasshopper Wrote: Slavery- Denies a human being the right to freedom.Except that there's no such thing as rights for animals. Legally and rationally it is objectively impossible for animals to bear and exercise rights. At most, they'll get some protection. So, you start with a wrong premise - Not to mention you're equating freedom with life
Eating animals- Denies an animal the right to life.
I dislike animal cruelty and it sickens me, I'm using a legalistic conception of rights - Animals don't have intelligence or means to exercise and use rights like we do, not to mention most rights/duties are not applicable to animals. When the dog goes for a walk, he doesn't go because he's exercising the right to move himself, he goes out of instinct and obedience to the owner
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