Animal Cruelty and Animal Rights Term Paper

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If anything else, most animals on this planet have evolved thousands or millions of years before human beings. They are the inheritors of this planet as much as any human being. The principle of Ethology and anthropology have shown us that animals act in many ways just like humans, they protect their young, operate within groups and show the structure and the formalities just as complex as human society. Therefore, it is wrong for philosophers to assert their inhumaneness as a qualifier for their abuse. It is evident from modern understanding that animals are just as sophisticated and entitled to their existence as humanity.

Animals not only are sophisticated creatures within their own right, they also play a fundamental role within our environment and our world. Ecology and the study of the environment have revealed that the ecosystem is not only very fragile, but that every animal as a unique and specific purpose within this world.
Without any particular animal, the consequences on this world may be disastrous. Therefore, animals play a part in making our world work the way its suppose to, without even a single animal species, this world could take a disastrous turn. Since they have such an important place not only within history, but also in the fundamental nature of our world, this is an important reason for why it is completely necessary that they are accorded rights that allows humanities and animals to operate harmoniously and co-exist.

Why don?€ t people think of animals as equals? I don?€ t know [How can you not know? Doesn't Cohen tell you? Doesn't Kant tell you?] but I do know that they should be treated as equals. They display many of the.....

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