We as a society will not respect the rights of animals because we don't recognize human rights properly yet.
First step:
Recognize that humans are animals.
Next step:
Recognize that human life is not more important than life of any other animal.
However, animals eat other animals. So do humans.
Even if you eat only plants, you still kill life to eat.
This concept that humans and animals are equal is nothing but a backdoor way to lower the standing of humans to that of an animal so that mistreatment of humans is excused. There is no way to give animals equal protection to humans and not do so. This is an anti-humanist viewpoint covered in a thin veneer of cute little furry creatures regardless if you recognize it as such or not.
Are you sure? Why do you think human life is more important than the life of other animals?
Because we can kill any animal on the planet anytime we want?
Is the life of a lion more important than that of a gazelle?We are the most dangerous animal on the planet, not the most important. All life is equally important. Step out of your 'human thinking box'.
BTW, humans are a plague.
I don't give a shit about any of your relativist bullshit. THE FACT IS that making animals equivalent to humans lowers the value of human life down to that of an animal, and this is anti-human and totalitarian. I don't need any other reasons, that single reason is horrible enough to reject your postmodernist tripe.
There are times when both of you are seemingly correct, though I agree more with the latter on principle because I am a human. Of all the creatures on the planet, we have been given the ability to create music, art, the sciences, medicine, the ability to transcend our current geosphere and to reach out to the stars.
We are given mathematics, philosophy, psychology and technology.
None of the other animals, no matter how much intelligence they have, have been able to reach the same zenith.
Yes, we are stewards of this planet assigned to mold and shape it as we see fit.
Perhaps you would not like to hurt an ant.
What about a snake that enters your home that threatens your family?
Equating human life to the life of a chicken, may seem to make sense from an extreme point of view. But as the guy above me said, "THE FACT IS that making animals equivalent to humans lowers the value of human life down to that of an animal, and this is anti-human and totalitarian. I don't need any other reasons, that single reason is horrible enough to reject your postmodernist tripe."
