Animal Rights
Liberal
Lie:
“Animals should have the same rights as
humans.”
Conservative Comebacks:
Cocky
Comeback: “Then they
can take themselves to the Vet!”
Cockier
Comeback: “How do
you bestow rights on an amoeba?”
Candid
Comeback: “Animals
should be treated in a humane manner as if they possessed moral rights; however, it’s impossible for animals to have legal rights, since they have no
ability to recognize these rights or to exercise them.”
Comeback
Facts:
·
Legal rights
cannot apply to animals the way they apply to humans because animals are
incapable of fulfilling the moral obligations that come with those rights.
·
The term “Animal
Rights” is a non sequitur. Even if animals were to acquire rights, they would
always be subjective rights, that
is, subject to those who presume to speak for them.
