disdainfullyyours asked: would you mind outlining, roughly, why you think animals have no (or should have no) rights? i've not seen many arguments from that side of the debate and am not entirely taken with the pro-animal rights arguments, so felt i needed a differing-from-the-majority opinion
Animal rights ideology holds that moral worth comes with sentience or the ability to suffer. Thus, since both animals and humans feel pain, animal rights advocates believe that what is done to an animal should be judged morally as if it were done to a human being. This is, of course, false. Morality has nothing to do with sentience, emotional capacity, suffering, or the ability to feel pain. Nothing whatsoever. This is the common misunderstanding that most people have with regard to morality in general—not just as it applies to animal rights.
