You can't make human standards apply to animals, but that does not mean that we abandon all moral obligation to care for animals that we have control over.Originally Posted by bad-one
I agree that not all traditions are good. However, I think it's different.
I love and respect my pets (dogs, cats, snakes, geckos, feeder and pet rats), all are treated kindly and well taken care of. However, I put human life before any animal.
Is a horse trained to pull a cart a slave? What about a working dog? A performing animal?
What about animals in a zoo or a caged pet? Can you apply the same laws of holding a person against their will to them?
Is killing an animal for any reason murder?
If you can't make human standards apply to animals I don't how you can imply it isn't different. But alas, everyone's opinion will be different
Thanks for the opinions guys/fellow ladies, I enjoyed reading your responses!
Putting human life before animal life is, I believe, the logical and correct thing to do. But that doesn't in any way mean that humans ought to be allowed to torture animals to death for their own enjoyment. If someone accidentally found themselves in a position where killing an animal was the only way for them to escape harm, then I would absolutely condone that action. However, just because I believe my life to be of more value than a fighting bull's doesn't mean that I think it's ok to purposely breed and raise an animal to be put into a ring and slowly and painfully killed while a crowd cheers.
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