What Human Rights?

[Catholic_Lady]

Look at the earlier posts that claim human rights are social construct, etc. etc. They do not really believe in the things theists do like the essential dignity and sanctity of human life. If they did they wouldn't be so quick to define human rights away or rather define them to please whatever political agenda they support.

Whereas theists, who define their morality according to the Bible, reject the essential dignity of sentient life, which includes not only persons but a wide variety of animals. If you respected a living being's capacity to suffer you'd feel less concerned about the death of undeveloped, unfeeling fetuses than you do about the horrible conditions in which livestock are raised and slaughtered.

I think it's wrong to kill a human being, regardless of whether they would feel it or are consciously aware of it. Killing without the victim suffering or knowing what is going on, is still contrary to human dignity.

My bold. You raise a great point, and the answer is we Christians ought to care about this too. 

"That is a very serious question. At any rate, we can see that animals are given into our care, that we cannot just do whatever we want with them. Animals, too, are God’s creatures…. Certainly, a sort of industrial use of creatures, so that geese are fed in such a way as to produce as large a liver as possible, or hens live so packed together that they become just caricatures of birds, this degrading of living creatures to a commodity seems to me in fact to contradict the relationship of mutuality that comes across in the Bible." - Pope Benedict XVI, when asked about the right of animals