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0 sats \ 4 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 6 Jun \ parent \ on: No, Your 'Doggo' Doesn't Have Rights | The Libertarian Institute Animal_World
There are several different reasons and ways to arrive at the conclusion that animals do not have the same rights as humans. Most of them are due to some lack of reasoning or language manipulation skills. I think most animals are better protected by calling them someone’s property rather than being ”wild” or having the same rights as humans. Just look at what Zimbabwe will be doing to many elephants in the near future!
Thinking about animal welfare, the best for now will be to consider them property, knowing that this is an easy stance without much criticism and with more benefits for us than for their actual “well-being.
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When do you start thinking of them as something other than property? What would they be then?
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Free and thinking beings — that’s the core of your post, and it’s exactly what I neither want to define nor am able to define.
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The article tried to define what thinking beings are. I think it did a fairly good four point decision tree.
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