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ANIMAL RIGHTS DEFINITION (Every day in countries around the world, animals…

- - - - function like social values or ethics
- - - - Since human rights are rich and diverse, and include civil, economic, political, social, and cultural rights, it makes no sense to claim than anyone seeks to give other-than-human animals the same rights people have now
        
        honoring rights for other animals diminishes some existing human privileges.
      - this claim sounds delightful
        
        has been made by religious and nonreligious figures alike
        
        needs to be unpacked and scrutinized carefully.
        
        the rights claimed are grounded in a rejection of speciesism
        
        the knowledge that animals have sentience
    - - whether we have a right to use and exploit them for our purposes.
        
        does not require equal or identical treatment; it requires equal consideration
        
        recognizing that animals are not ours to use—for food, clothing, entertainment, or experimentation.
        
        supporters of animal rights believe that animals have an inherent worth
        
        a value completely separate from their usefulness to humans
- - - - the capacity for suffering as the vital characteristic that gives a being the right to equal consideration.
        
        All animals have the ability to suffer in the same way and to the same degree that humans do.
        
        do feel pleasure, fear, frustration, loneliness, and motherly love
        
        we are morally obligated to take them into account