Reply #43: This is the problem.... [View All]

[Milo_Bloom]

"Animal rights is the belief that animals have interests for their own sake and that animals are not rightfully the commodites to be exploited by humanity. "

It is the hypocricy in this statement that is the real problem. First, animals are often the commodities of other animals. If humans are, in fact, animals as PETA attempts to draw the connection, then humans have the same rights to use animals as commodities as other animals already do.

Second, I don't even need to go the "exploitation" of the tin foil hats, but simply to the fact that you OWN cats. You own animals because they bring you pleasure of some form. They are furry, cute, you like hearing them purr... whatever it is. They are your pets. I have no doubt they are being treated well, but if you really want to draw comparrisons, they are your slaves... there for your entertainment, no matter how well they are treated... that's all they are.

If you set them free tomorrow, they would trap, torture and kill other animals. In fact, cats are one of the few other creatures (besides humans) that will actually torture another living thing for its amusement. When I catch neighborhood cats partaking of this activity, I put a quick stop to it by grabbing the cat and allowing whatever its "plaything" is to escape.. but if we are to take a moral high ground here, than the cats that do this should be caged/jailed, right?

In short, if animals can eat animals, and humans are animals then socrates can eat animals.