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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (79250)	11/29/2003 12:46:38 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

"If an animal does not have the right not to suffer...what "RIGHTS" could it possibly have?" All creatures suffer from time to time, humans included, without that suffering necessarily being an issue of right and wrong. Animals suffer all the time without it being an issue of right vs wrong. They starve and wither on the Sahara desert, for example, without their rights having been violated. I have already answered the question you ask. Where rights of animals are at issue, responsibility of human care and treatment is unavoidably entangled. As I said: "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."