“Woof woof” the dog barks, does he know why he just did that? Did he truly comprehend why they just barked or was it for no reason at all. Even though animals feel emotions they cannot truly comprehend the true meaning of them. They cannot logically think to make intelligence backed actions. Animals do not deserve rights because they do not have the ability to reason and tell right from wrong. Some opposers might say that animals deserve rights and that they should be held at the same levels as humans. “Once the dividing line between humans and animals had been erased, it's hard to uphold any fundamental ethical distinction between them,” (Linker 9). If animals received rights would they be held at the same standard as humans? Even if they
“In nature animals naturally kill each other. If the hawk does not care about the feelings of the rabbit that it eats, why should humans be any different,” (Stevens 1). The hawk will never think twice about what the mouse felt because the hark cares about his survival and not the mouses. We should not feel bad that we kill animals for our human consumption. It is nature that the animals were created for, it is the circle of life. Animals are around for our usage, “Animals are a natural resource to be used as humans see fit,” (Evans 7). There are tens of billions of animals on this earth that were specifically bred for our nutrition. An animals soul purpose in life is to be eventually killed and be eaten by a human. Killing a human is morally wrong, “To kill an individual is wrong... because to kill an individual is to violate his intrinsic dignity that he or she possesses simply by virtue of being human,” (Linker 12). Being human gives us the universal right of being able to live. For as long as human history, human death has always been deemed as awful. If a human killed another human that will be viewed as taboo and morally wrong. Society will reject that individual and they will be sent to a correctional facility to live out their days thinking about what they did. We feel this way because we can logically think and realize that it is something that is morally wrong across every