Animal Hunting Is Ethical
Animal Ethics
Freedom from dehydration, hunger, and malnutrition is ethical. The right to be free of discomfort caused by environmental factors is ethical. To live without pain, injury, and disease is ethical. To live in freedom without fear and distress is what animal ethics are about, and us as humans can help to enforce this by setting laws that benefit animal rights (Sztybel, 1998, pp.130-132).
Animal ethics are created for animal protection or human advancement? As a society we create laws to protect animals, and we punish those who break the laws that are created. But are these laws created to benefit animal rights or the pleasures of human society. We as humans need to look at the way society treats animals, and what we believe is …show more content…
We as a human society have the privilege of making laws that are supposed to be ethical for animals and their overall well being. So, how do we come to the conclusion of what is best for animals, and what is acceptable for humans? Some activists believe that we should not drink milk from cows or wear clothing that is made with any animal hide (Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, 2007). This to some people may seem very extreme, but how about the other side of the coin. Where humans hunt animals in their own environment so they can severe the head and hang it on the wall as a trophy. These are two totally different extremes. Depending upon which side you chose to lean towards, helps to influence what you consider as an individual to be considered unethical and ethical for animals. How does either of these acts benefit animals in any way? They do not, these are human laws made to benefit human opinions and to satisfy human entertainment or pleasures. These are not ways to protect animals or promote animal rights in our …show more content…
Humans today have a huge demand for pets including all different types of animals. People pay large amounts of money for these pets and want their investments protected. Therefore, they will push for certain laws that will protect their pets in the environment they have created for their pet or pets. Some high demand exotic pets are being neglected by their owners without the owners even knowing that they are doing anything wrong. They are taking these animals out of their natural environment and not giving them the proper caretaking that is needed to keep the animal healthy. (Evans, 2005) With this in mind what about other animals that may not be in the same high demand pet category. They will continue to be treated with less attention as long as nothing is being voiced by human society. Now, are the laws that are being created and enforced protecting the high demanded pets or the pet's master? I believe this is a good example of the animal ethics being used to benefit human's wants and not animal's
Freedom from dehydration, hunger, and malnutrition is ethical. The right to be free of discomfort caused by environmental factors is ethical. To live without pain, injury, and disease is ethical. To live in freedom without fear and distress is what animal ethics are about, and us as humans can help to enforce this by setting laws that benefit animal rights (Sztybel, 1998, pp.130-132).
Animal ethics are created for animal protection or human advancement? As a society we create laws to protect animals, and we punish those who break the laws that are created. But are these laws created to benefit animal rights or the pleasures of human society. We as humans need to look at the way society treats animals, and what we believe is …show more content…
We as a human society have the privilege of making laws that are supposed to be ethical for animals and their overall well being. So, how do we come to the conclusion of what is best for animals, and what is acceptable for humans? Some activists believe that we should not drink milk from cows or wear clothing that is made with any animal hide (Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, 2007). This to some people may seem very extreme, but how about the other side of the coin. Where humans hunt animals in their own environment so they can severe the head and hang it on the wall as a trophy. These are two totally different extremes. Depending upon which side you chose to lean towards, helps to influence what you consider as an individual to be considered unethical and ethical for animals. How does either of these acts benefit animals in any way? They do not, these are human laws made to benefit human opinions and to satisfy human entertainment or pleasures. These are not ways to protect animals or promote animal rights in our …show more content…
Humans today have a huge demand for pets including all different types of animals. People pay large amounts of money for these pets and want their investments protected. Therefore, they will push for certain laws that will protect their pets in the environment they have created for their pet or pets. Some high demand exotic pets are being neglected by their owners without the owners even knowing that they are doing anything wrong. They are taking these animals out of their natural environment and not giving them the proper caretaking that is needed to keep the animal healthy. (Evans, 2005) With this in mind what about other animals that may not be in the same high demand pet category. They will continue to be treated with less attention as long as nothing is being voiced by human society. Now, are the laws that are being created and enforced protecting the high demanded pets or the pet's master? I believe this is a good example of the animal ethics being used to benefit human's wants and not animal's