Question

1. Why do humans see themselves as separate from other animals?

2. Should animals have legal rights? Why or why not.​

Answer 1

Rights are determined by the powers that be in a culture. A human culture that is empowered by humans will reflect human interests when it formulates a statement of rights for that culture.

Human cultures formulate rights for humans. Some of those humans will empower some rights for some animals.

If there were a culture that valued human and animal rights equally they would have to have the power to enforce those rights over those who disagree.

Bottom line: Humans enforce human rights over animal rights because they have the power and no animals have the capability of establishing political rights. Rights for animals have to be enforced by interested humans.

Answer 2

1.we see ourselves as seperate from other animals because we are more developed than them and we can think deeper than just haunting for food and mating

2.animals definitely should have legal rights because at the end of the day we are all just different species sharing this planet earth