Now explain, why it is supposed to recognize that humans are something special on earth.
Define what a human is and how a human is different from animals and plants.PunkMaister wrote:You cannot possibly apply the same human rights to Animals or plants. Animals and even plants could get at best some minimal rights to be protected from abuse, unlawwful cutting of forests etc. that sort of thing but there is no way to rationally apply human rights to either. Anyone that even proposes such a thing is a Nutjob in my opinion.
Define what human rights are and why a human is supposed to have such but no animal or plant.
Define what sentient means and prove that humans are sentient and animals are not.PunkMaister wrote:Animals are not sentient, they think but they cannot rationalize and are not self aware as we are [...]
Define what rationalistic means and prove that humans can rationalize and animals can not.
Define what self awareness means and prove that humans are self aware and animals are not.
Define what poetry is and prove that animals don't do it.PunkMaister wrote:Animals don't write poetry, they never ask their place in the universe, only we do that.
Prove that animals don't ask their place in the universe.
Furthermore, show that all these abilities are somehow important for the question, if animals should have their own rights and that these are not arbitrary chosen criteria.
A chimpanzee has the mental abilities of a 3 - 5 years old child [1, 2, 3].
If a chimpanzee does not has its own rights because he lacks certain mental abilities, does that mean, that a child also does not have its own rights because it also lacks certain mental abilities?
Explain, why that difference is supposed to be irrelevant.GStone wrote:The only difference between a plant and an animal is a brain. Plants just don't go anywhere.