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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: TimF who wrote (79195)11/21/2003 11:52:20 AM
From: one_less  Read Replies (5) of 82486
 
"Some might raise "cow rights" or "animal rights" to be the equivalent of human rights. I would not."

I would. There is a common misconception that if things are equal they must be the same. Malicious and cruel treatment of cows is wrong. Cows don't have human rights they have cow's rights. The two are equal and not incompatible. The problem comes when PETA (or anyone) arrives on the scene and assumes a cow's point of view as if the cow has human rights.

A cow is a beast. Beasts have a different nature than humans. So, when considering a beast’s rights we must also include its natural condition. It is not a violation of a beast’s rights to be slaughtered and eaten since this is its natural condition. We should not automatically conclude that a beast's rights have been violated simply because it has suffered. Beasts suffer and die in a Sahara desert drought, without having been violated. Or that suffering from the loss of a pack member is a violation since social beasts regulate membership in nature and have members violently taken in the course of their existence without concluding that rights have been violated.

So when are a cow’s rights violated? When a human being inflicts, cruel and malicious harm on the animal, especially when it is unnecessary. This might be through neglecting one’s responsibility or actual cruel conduct that inflicts unnecessary suffering.
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