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Why should animals have rights? What rights should they have?
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December 2nd, 2011
Some people treat their pets as if they were people. Some people don’t think humans should hurt animals and some think we shouldn’t eat them. In India, cows are sacred. No one touches them. In the US, some people want to protect all the deer, even though they have no natural predators and are damaging the forests and causing accidents. There are people who don’t want chinchillas killed to make fur coats.
Where do these ideas come from? What is our ideal relationship to animals? Is there a different set of rights we would give to mammals compared to birds or lizards or fish? If so, what are the differences and how are they justified?
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