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Animal's Right to life.

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Recently there has been a lot of discussion over which animal deserves the most right ( or any right ) to life. I have been getting the response that humans deserve life over all other creatures. To those people who agree with that statement:

If a stray cat was lying in the middle of a crowded intersection, would you risk your life to run into the intersection and save it?

If you were a driver on that intersection, would you hit the cat purposefully, since your right to life is more important than the cats?

Why?
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Rights are governed by two forces in our current physical reality. Strength and Teeth, the concept of the Strongest Will Survive. As I stated in the other, almost identical topic, the difference in man and beast is a predator/prey relationship. For proof that man is not the highest creature, with the most rights, ask the Crocodile Hunter whether or not he, at the time of his death, had any right to not die. He did not, this is often the case when one toys with true predators.

We are jumped up apes that have been slightly genetically engineered, our rights are decided by our strength and our teeth. When our strength is outmatched, and our teeth aren't as sharp as we think, we are eaten or killed by the other, various, predators that roam along side of us. This is simply because there are no true rights in the universe, save for the right to have a chance at life.

If you die early, that is your own issue, it is not a violation of your Rights. As such, so it is the same with animals. If an antelope is eaten, they do not get a comity of antelopes together to petition the Lion Pride Union. No, it was the Lion's right to eat the antelope, and the antelope's right to escape if he could. This is even shown in our universe and its various interactions between large and small objects, let alone simply life on our planet.

The strongest survive, that is the only right that any creature inherently has. From this, we have a right to do as we please to animals, and as the Farmers of north east India and the villagers in Africa find out that when the local wildlife has had too much, people start dying in drastic numbers. (please see Chimpanzee Attacks +Africa and Elephant Attacks +India for more information.)

Arrogance is the only right that we seem to think that we have. We are nothing more than animals, to defend ourselves or be eaten by the bigger, meaner predators.
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To me, my life is more important than an animal's, because animals have a lesser consciousness than people do. I therefore have less empathy for them than for people.

That doesn't mean I kill them for no reason. I would not risk my life to save a cat, but I wouldn't deliberately hit the cat if there was no danger to my life.
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Post by anarchyisbliss »

]To me, my life is more important than an animal's, because animals have a lesser consciousness than people do. I therefore have less empathy for them than for people.
I understand having empathy for you own kind, even I do and if it came down to it I might pick a human over a cat in a deathly situation. I don think you can say they have a lesser consciousness than us since weve never walked in their shoes. I know science has said it and religion has said it, but I don't think animals have lesser consciousness ( depending on how you define it ) but Im not trying to start a fight, I just dont think you can know somehting until you have experinced it.
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