animal rights Options

[cashmere deer]

It is completely beyond me how some of you don't care at all about animals. I mean I get how you think we should use them but it is up to us to be humane about it...but others just don't give a damn. And to tell you the truth, anyone like that completely blows me away and I have nothing to say to them.

[dinoooRAWR]

NO. its not fair for the poor creatures.
think about it. we're taking away their homes for our own housing.

now we gotta kill them with chemicals..

[sarahcastro]

animal experimentaion should be illegal because animals can't say no and they can't defemd themselves

[NoSex]

animal experimentaion should be illegal because animals can't say no and they can't defemd themselves

You're begging the question like a monster.
What's so wrong about not being able to say "no" or defend themselves?
I mean, I certainly agree that they can not do either, but I'm just not seeing that as a fundemental problem. In fact, this is just a further demonstration of the near non-existent moral character of the non-human animal.

I guess my question is, why exactly should we care that they can't say "nor" or defend themselves?

[pedophile]

I guess my question is, why exactly should we care that they can't say "nor" or defend themselves?

I most certaintly agree.
I mean, WE are defensively weak against some animals, but I doubt they're going to stop & not attack us. Sure, they might not be as smart as us, but that doesn't make animal experimenting wrong. Okay, killing an animal for your OWN pleasure is wrong, but animal testing isn't. Hell, I doubt most of these animals you love so much would hesitate to have you for dinner.
Face it, animals eat animals, humans eat animals, & animals would eat humans if they had the chance. Okay, so in order to save ALL animals, we'd have to force all animals to become vegetarian, which would pretty much be impossible & pointless. & if you also want to save animals soooo badly, then you'd also have to stop feeding your dog dog meat since it has meat in it. Just think of it as a game of survival, whoever survives the longest wins. & obviously, animals aren't doing a very good job.

Ok, so to bring PETA into this. Most of the things PETA tells us are LIES. Oh, & did you know that PETA also kills animals, too? Yes, so if you're supporting PETA, you're supporting more animal abuse & their little terrorist acts.

Ok, I'm done.

[lightsabersavvy]

no. just because animals arent as smart as we are and cant really defend themselves doesnt mean that we should take advantage of them.

[NoSex]

no. just because animals arent as smart as we are and cant really defend themselves doesnt mean that we should take advantage of them.

We aren't taking advantage of them simply because they can't "really defend themselves" or because they "aren't as smart as we are." We're taking advantage because they are useful resource to the health, benefit, and progress of the human race. By animal research, millions and millions of human lives have been saved.

Should we not value the safety and preservation of said lives? Should it not be a goal to save these lives? Well, since these are things which we find agreeable, we must find practical, useful, and appropriate means to accomplish said tasks. Animal research in order to imrpove biomedical science is the most viable option in this respect. So, we take advantage of that.