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A Discussion on Animal Rights


"Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; The Declaration of
Independence holds these rights to be self evident and unalienable. In the
eighteenth century when these words were written they were called natural rights,
today we call them human rights" (McShea 34). The issue of whether or not to
grant animal rights such as those that humans retain, is a greatly disputed
issue. Philosophers, clergyman, and politicians have argued the point of animal
rights for years, but without success. Animal right is an extremely intricate
issue that involves the question of animal intelligence, animal activist groups,
and the pros and cons of granting animals their rights.

Psychologists around the world, who have studied nonhuman primates,
argue that these animals possess the capacity to communicate. They go on to
explain that a communication barrier is all that separates humans from animals.
If they bridged that barrier, then humans could talk with......

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