Myth # 57 : " But animals don ' t have the same rights ."
Myth # 57 : " But animals don ' t have the same rights ."
Says who ? Say we humans , of course – members of a species so arrogantly homeocentric that we are not only brazenly rationalizing the horrific atrocities currently being committed every day against vast populations of farmed animals , but also willfully destroying our own planet of origin at an alarming rate – and knowingly taking the majority of other sentient species “ over the cliff ” with us while we do so ! As such , in all fairness , it seems as though the only animals on the entire planet that actually have no right to speak about rights are we humans !
To make matters worse , our hubris continues to blind us to the many ways that many other species are clearly superior to our own – that cows are more nurturing , that herons are more faithful , that dogs show greater loyalty , that elephants have greater empathy , and that dolphins exhibit a more complete ( and possibly a more complex ) intelligence – just to name a few .
Of course , it doesn ' t really matter whether a particular species is " smarter " or more " technologically savvy " than we are . After all , we aren ' t talking about the right to vote or the right to drive a car here ... We are talking about the innate Right of every sentient being to be treated with fundamental Respect ; the innate Right of every sentient being to be able to live a life free from the unjust & cruel intrusions of enslavement , confinement , torture & murder . And these are Rights that belong to every sentient creature , regardless of their race , regardless of their gender , regardless of their spiritual beliefs – and regardless of their species
My Friends , the truly superior being is not the one who can speak in clear sentences or operate machinery or force his or her will upon another . The truly superior being is the one who deeply Respects the rights of all his sentient brothers & sisters – and then acts accordingly .
Let it be so !
Current status of this Myth : Negated Justification it provides for eating animals : NONE
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