Animals Can Be - 57849513 2
Animals Can Be - 57849513 2
Animals Can Be - 57849513 2
Affermitive Negative
Without animals Animals have
humans wouldn't limited feelings
be superior
Animals have
Humans are more
ability to complex
suffer just like
humans
Animals can suffer in the same way and to the same degree
that humans do. They feel pain, pleasure, fear, frustration, Humans are also more complex than animals because animal
loneliness, and motherly love. There is a 67 percent similarity brain structure is more important than brain size but the
between the DNA of humans and animals. When someone human brain with its complex highly folded cortex that no
hurts animals, emotionally and physically, they feel the same other animal brain can do the things human brains can do.
way us humans feel. Animals share the same nervous system, The human brain is far more complex than non-human
neuro chemicals, perceptions, and emotions, all of which are animals. This lacking ability allows us, humans, to be more
integrated into the experience of pain. skilled than any other life form on the planet. It’s not only
intelligence that we are talking about here. Our brain is made
Humans are animals in a way that helps us evolve and survive. This complexity
allows us to know what’s right and wrong.
Humans are animals. More than 65% of their DNA matches
with animals and 99% with apes only! We cannot classify Animals don't have a sense of
animals as not humans, we are animals; we developed from
them. Animals feel like we do, they think like us, animal brains
morality
We have discovered many inventions such as futuristic
are similar to human brains. Both animals and humans react electronics and devices. However, animals can’t do that.
in the same way. There is a reason why we share so much Although they are capable of evolving, they don’t have the
DNA. It is because we are animals. We give birth like complexity which humans have. Whilst animals and humans
mammals and survive like animals. We also need food, water share the five senses, humans have an extra “sixth sense” —
and shelter. In the end, we are animals, and we should an intuitive power to gain awareness of the surrounding
consider them as persons. environment. This is why humans require rights more than
animals. To give more examples, both animals and humans
can be given stimuli to react to. Humans make conscious
choices as to how they react to stimuli. Since these decisions
are conscious, we are able to distinguish what’s a “good”
choice and a “bad choice”.
Personhood changed with time and culture. “For it is highly deserving of remark, that
In the past, nonhuman animals may not be there are no men so dull and stupid, not
considered people but now they do! even idiots, as to be incapable of joining
Back then, everyone believed in Descartes' together different words” By this quote,
theories. They considered animals as Descartes means that humans are not
machines and weren't respected. It was incredibly stupid and they know what is
proven later on that they can think and right and wrong. On the other hand animals,
behave like us. Singer's criteria for no matter how happy or perfect, cannot do
personhood is Consciousness, intelligence, what they like.
understanding you exist as an individual