Rights of Animals?
probably learned too late to stop slaughtering the bison that fed and clothed them.
Ah, lass, the Indigenous Tribes of the original occupants of this country did NOT slaughter the Bison. They killed them with respect and only as needed. The actual slaughter and near extinction of the mighty herds of Buffalo was a directive handed down from Washington. It was a simple theory, kill all the food and all the Indians will die. Genocide plain and simple. Trainloads of men with guns were sent to kill ALL the Bison. Another beautiful example of why mans "natural rights" are undeserved. Although if I think in racist terms it seems that ethics are more often set aside by white folks than by races of colour. Most all the nasty shite that has happened in in our recorded world history has been perpetrated by us white folks.
Not all of it of course,in our dim past we couldn't be everywhere at once, now we can. AS a brief f'rinstance, Iraq, everyone got along okay under Saddams brutal regime, enter the white man and the killing commences. This is strictly conjecture though and unrelated to the topic.
Issodoss, what has mankind, male, female and non white done to deserve any natural rights beyond that of other species? Religious claims don't do it for me and rescuing kittens is cute but doesn't earn totalitarian claims over the planet. All the studies and theories about mans nature have been conducted by men (and women) and so might be a we bit slanted in our favor.
Who gave us these rights and did not give them to animals?
In a nutshell is it simply that might makes rights?
