humans ought to respect animals’ capability to suffer
I think that animals should not be confined, harmed, or even suffer. Treating animals cruelly or making them feel unnecessary pain is not right. Animals should not be treated like they only exist to benefit human beings. Despite most animals not having the cognitive capabilities to communicate and even reason like human beings can, they are still capable of feeling pain. Therefore, humans ought to respect animals’ capability to suffer. Carrying out painful medical examinations, bringing them up in unfavorable conditions, and killing them to obtain meat and even fur are all excellent examples of unethical manners of conduct, which violate animals’ rights.
Those individuals who keep animals like cats and dogs should make sure that they are well taken care of like being fed properly, getting medical treatment, and being loved. Animals like dogs are great companions to human beings, and they can also be very loyal when treated right. A dog would do anything to protect its caregiver. Other animals like cows and chicken also provide milk and eggs if well taken care of, which benefits humans. Therefore, killing them could make them extinct, which is not good. Aguirre and Turner (2004) state that all species, whether plants or animals, are masterpieces of biology, thus are worth saving, and every species has a one-of-a-kind genetic traits’ combination that makes it fit a specific environment’s part (p. 435).
Generally, animals play a very crucial role in people’s lives; hence they should be protected, loved, and treated with so much kindness. Humans should keep their selfishness aside and embrace the responsibility of taking good care of these animals, and in return, the animals will reciprocate the love. When humans do their duties to these animals with respect to human nature’s manifestations, they indirectly do their duty or moral obligation to humanity.
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