Ilana Mercer's 'No Rights For Animals !'

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For centuries, animals have been used by us people like they are some of our worst enemies. We have tortured, slaughtered, skinned, burned, experimented on, and even used them as pets. These animals who have the right to live like any other free creatures must be saved from the torment of humanity. Our human species have been nothing but cruel and dishonest toward the use of these poor animals. Cruel because of our poor ways of slaughtering the animals and dishonest due to the fake reports we provide to the public of their use. In order for us to understand what the animals go through, we must put ourselves in their shoes, and clearly when we do that no human would want to be in their place. Yes, we need their meat and yes we need them …show more content…

Mercer argues that animals have no capacity to tell What is right and what is wrong like humans do and they cannot be accounted for their actions either. The purpose of this article is to inform the general public that animals are to be treated with passion by humans, but not to the extent of giving them the same rights as humans as Animal Rights activists claim. Throughout the whole article Mercer forcefully argues that animals activists are too extreme and also provides real-life tragedies of the insane Animal Right advocates being killed by …show more content…

6). We make the excuse of animals not being able to control their actions so we have to think for them by controlling them and benefiting from their use. I disagree with Mercer because if animals think and act similar to humans that is why it is irrelevant to say that they act flexibly. People are born with their rights naturally in this modern time, so should animals as well. My argument is that if animals do act flexibly, how come they feel the excitement, fear, and know when there's a danger around them, in addition how do the animal parents take care of their babies just like humans

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