Animal Rights vs Human Morals

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Rights come from the ability to think not the ability to suffer.
Many people can agree that animals need rights to be able to stay alive and be safe. But ask yourself is that really the only solution to saving animals? In my case, I believe that is not the only solution, for animals to be safe people need to realize it’s their fault animals are put through suffrage. Animal’s lives are put on the line due to the actions of human beings. Animals do not need rights to be protected. Human beings need to learn to behave morally, rather than on the act of animal rights, although the absence of cruelty does not make an act morally good. (Lewis)
As stated above, “the absence of cruelty does not make an act morally good”, is a phrase that allows your brain to soar with ideas and emotions. It makes you think and wonder not only for the ethical treatment of animals but for the morally correct human being. When an individual practices to be morally right they not only need to be absent in the morally wrong areas. They need to use the correct practices as examples for others. They need to put them on display to show others how to act and how to educate their peers. We forget that we are examples for others and when we act as humans in a morally correct way, we are showing others how they should act as well. Acknowledging the wrong is something we must do instead of ignoring it. We have to make people aware of the wrong so it doesn’t become a way of doing things.
Animal rights and human morality is the subject and often the debate in agriculture and livestock industries. There are hardworking individuals in these industries that work towards educating those about ethical treatment, but there are also those involved who do not understand. ...

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...ights are given freely but can be taken quickly. If humans treated other humans the way they do animals things would be a lot different. When ethical and humane treatments are practiced and passed on, people will be happier with the care given to animals. Therefore they will consider that to be animal rights. It will no longer be a fight and Animal Rights vs. Human Morality.

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Klein, Shawn E. The Problem of Animal Rights. n.d. Document. 21 November 2013.
Lewis, C.S. Animal Ethics. n.d. Document. 26 September 2013.
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