Animal Rights

In our class, Animal Anatomy, we are determining what rights are, and which animals deserve rights. We have to answer two questions. 1) What is a right? 2) What animals would we have the right to disect(why) and which animals do we not have the right to disect(why). We are writing our blogs on this topic. I hope you enjoy.

A right is something that everybody has and deserves. Rights depend on you maturity. So, you receive more rights with age and responsibility. Through life you become more mature and deserve more rights and freedoms. “With rights comes great responsibility”. Not every right can be measured by how responsible you are. For example, you cannot figure out for everyone if they are responsible enough to drive a car. In this case the right is based on your age. When people think that you should be responsible enough to so something. When you are 18 you can drive, you can drink, and you can party. Rights may be equally deserved by everyone, but can also be taken away from anyone. For example, if you murder somebody else you lose your right to freedom and are sent away to jail. Rights are something we all get to have, but can also lose. Rights are something you deserve from maturing and aging.

We as humans more evolved than animals may think we have the right to kill and dissect animals of nature, but we really don’t. Animals have the right to live, which means we do not have the right to kill. However, say we did have the right to kill and cut open other species, which would we have the most right to kill and dissect? We would be able to dissect anything from a shrimp to a rat. That would include the small things. Creatures like mice, small lizards, small birds, and insects. Those are a few of the small creatures we would be able to kill and cut. I, myself, do not believe in killing or cutting animals except for food. I am one to support animal rights.

I believe that we should not be able to kill or dissect any creature. I do not feel that cutting any animal open should be aloud. We as humans have no right to injure or kill any creatures of this great earth. Primates are something we should not be aloud to do anything to, yet you can find videos online of people doing practice surgeries on baby chimps. Where is the moral, the ethics? What makes we people so much better then them? Are we, are we really? We are just the same, and they deserve just the same.

Why do some people think it is okay to dissect animals like rats, but not okay to dissect pandas? We determine this by respect. If we respect an animal, we respect their rights. All animals have the same rights. We just do not respect all of them. Cockroaches, for example, we have no respect for. So, we feel it is okay to kill them. Dogs (mans best friend), we respect, so we treat them different and respect their rights as well. We humans have no right to treat different animals differently. All animals big or small, important or not, maintain the right to have their rights. We cannot take them away from the animals. One way we determine how useful an animal is is by how useful they are to us. If an animal is useful we show them respect. If not, they receive nothing. A dog is a useful animal. Dogs do a lot of stuff for people. We show them respet, and let them keep their rights. Mosquitos, on the other hand, are useless to us. They do nothing to benefit the human race. So, we show them no respect, give them no rights, and smack when we see them.

All animals deserve their rights. We have no right to take the rights from another animal. We should not be able to determine whether an animal deserves more or less rights. We need to show respect to all animals. We shouldn’t care how useful an animal is. We should let them live in peace, respected.