If you look at the course of western history you'll see that we're slowly granting basic rights to everyone. A long time ago only kings had rights. Then rights were extended to property-owning white men, then all men. then women, then children. Now we're agonizing over the extension of basic rights to animals. W as a society need to finally accept that all sentient creatures are deserving of basic rights. A definition of a basic human rights is to pursue life without having someone else's will involuntarily forced upon you. This is also said to be the pursuite of life liberty and happiness
By what criteria can you justify denying basic rights to any living thing? Realize that by whatever criteria you employ someone could deny basic rights to you if they objected to your species, sexual preferences, color, religion, ideology etc. So why should the rights of other animals such as your house cat be ingnored.
The simple rational applies treat others as you want to be treated. if......

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Title: Animal Rights
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