so why do humans have more rights than animals?
I think its pretty plan and simple. Direct to the point. Humans have unique characteristics which include the ability to be rational. Humans have moral rights, which is the belief of humans, and moral rights are essential to human growth. Moral rights stem from beliefs and they are what people use to distinguish between right and wrong. There is no way to tell if an animal can distinguish between right and wrong.
If someone can show me scientific evidence of this, I might to start to believe a little more that animals have rights, but until then.
Some people like to argue that animals have rights because they are spiritual well beings and serve as food for other animals and humans, and therefore they have rights. I don't think that those two characteristics constitute something having rights. An animal has the inability to take control of something, and I feel that is the biggest hinderance to them having rights.
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But see my latest post re the superior mental skills of chimps.
Also, if animals lack rights because of some cognitive limitation, what about, as the panel put it, "marginal" humans (the commatose, senile, very young, etc.)?
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