Then animals have rights, no?
Jeff
Nah, that's too flip. This one is kinda important to me. Man - as an animal - has developed a very smooth piece of evolutionary machinery, the brain. Nonetheless, man is still an animal - high on the scale of "intelligence", far lower on the scale of physical equipment, relying largely on his constructs to support himself.
In the animal kingdom, there is only one right - the right to survive until you don't. I assume that this is ultimately man's only right, and that any other "rights" are products of compassion, enlightened self-interest, hope for a better world, etc. In other words, man's only "right" is supplemented by intellectual constructs which have distinctly un-Randian roots. |
