My friends and I were having a discussion on dogs' (so called city pets) well being in Malaysia. Due to religious rules, apartment rules, city rules and blah blah blah, dogs seems to be not well treated in our country. Even importing a certain breed of dogs from oversea is considered a torture to that particular pet due to its physical nature might not suit the hot temp in Malaysia. In that context, putting animals in the zoo would constitute to be 100% animal rights' infringement by human races because zoo is not the original 'home' for these poor animals.
My perspective is that no matter what we do to help protect the animal rights (even if you build a big bungalow for the dogs to stay), human rights will always come first compare to the animal rights. The only way for the dogs to have their rights fully uphold is for them to outsmart human being and to be able to control us.
For billion of years, each living organism (including human) in our planet fight to survive and to increase their population. I wonder who was the boss in this planet when the dinosaurs were still around and human beings might just be the tiny pet at that time or not even smart enough to exist in this planet. The rule at that period of time might be "No humans straying around in the city of jungle. Lock yourself in the cave as long as you can".
So, do animal have rights? Or they are just one of the many living organism in this planet that has no choice but to fulfill our human rights:- the right to own them as slave at home to entertain us or in the zoo to fulfill the curiosity of human beings.
If animals have rights, it should be in the context where they can decide where they want to go and what they want to do at any time without any constraint. Better still, if they are angry to any particular human being, they have the right to bite the ass of that person! In the court of animal, this will be termed self defense :)
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Humans are blessed with the intelligence which make us superior to all other species on earth. Because of that intelligence, we are able to to decide what is right and what is wrong.
ReplyDeleteAnimals (and all nature) depend on us to make the right judgment. And often, we humans who are blinded by our selfish needs, are not able to see the larger picture and make decisions that only benefit our own needs.
If you ask me to choose between a human life or an animal life, I of course will choose a human life. But just because we have higher rights, it doesn't mean it gives us the right to treat animals badly.
Whether you agree or not, the fact is that animals can feel the same things as us. They feel hunger the way we do, they feel physical pain the way we do, and some animals like dogs feel emotions as well. Just because we are smarter does not give us the right on inflict physical pain and hunger and suffering onto animals. In fact, it's because we ARE smarter, we should be doing what's right for the animals and nature.
Dogs will love you no matter who you are or what you do, and are fiercely loyal to you, something that we humans with all our intelligence sometimes fail to do ourselves.
To me, if we as humans cannot find the compassion to treat animals and nature the right way, when is our intelligence and our conscious for?
A person who is kind to both humans and animals, is one who is genuinely a kind person.
And Yin How is that kind person who instead of throwing away our left over food, he would make an effort to purposely drive out at night to a group of stray dogs near our place and give the food to them instead.:)