Granting rights to animals is treating animals equal to humans. |
There is no principal difference between humans and animals.
Animals have equal basic rights but would not want to be treated as humans.
They have different needs. |
Rights accrue only to creatures with the innate ability to be responsible for themselves. |
This does not apply to fundamental rights.
Animal rights are in fact human rights to limit other people's unjust behavior towards animals. |
Animals in captivity are freer than in nature because there are no predators to kill them. |
To fall prey to an natural enemy by a natural enemy is part of the course of nature.
It is the other side of the right to be free and is undeniably linked to it. |
The animal doesn't know better. |
Through ignorance or impossibility not to know what animals exactly want, is no ground to deny rights to animals. |
To fight injustice towards people is more important. |
This doesn't make animal rights unimportant. |
Animals do not have feelings like humans. |
Not being able to express feelings like humans do is irrelevant to having rights. |
Animals are inferior to humans. |
Value and basic rights have nothing to do with each other. |
Animals are there to serve man. |
Servants have equal rights to masters. |
Why should you grant rights to animals? |
This question could also be aimed at people.
Whoever denies another being (human or animal) rights, denies those rights to oneself as well. |
Animals are different from humans. |
If you grant animals their freedom, there is no need to look for (dis)similarities between humans and animals to base (a difference in) their rights upon. |