Tim's blog

The discussions with animal ethics and particular animal rights almost cover all possible perspectives. Ancient Greek philosophers are taken into account as well as the most modern activists. Most of the arguments focus to animals rights as rights of an individual. A horse has the right to not unnecessary suffer. Already this rather simple appearing rule brings up conflicts such as the act to kill an injured horse due to the fact of a low chance of healing or the loss of usability. Also more generic views like the right to not to be regarded as property contains conflict of theories. The unmerciful ousting of animals all over the world due to multiplication of humans is not covered with the idea related to property.
The very modern world brings the “use” of animals to perfection. Chicken are for instance an industry product. I image the world to grow older, let me say 500.000 years. In case animals are still “used” in the same way as we do now, human would have no interest to grant the right to evolution to these industry chicken. We only form their appearing to our needs of industrial livestock farming.
That means the existing of these kind of animals in our use are depending to our existence. If we would extinct, these industry chicken would have no chance to survive due to the fact of just not being able to exist in the free nature. Without the participation in evolution and the “adjustment” to the changing environment, survival is impossible.
This being said concludes that if animals would be granted to the right to participate in evolution the problem of drawing the line to unsophisticated beings such a bugs to sophisticated beings such as great apes disappears.
This idea does not make the individual rights of an animal unnecessary but brings the whole matter into a different light. All subsequent rights would follow from that paradigm shift. It would question the use of animals as industry product as well as the dog ownership (with the forming of beings unable to exist without humans and formed to appearances entirely to the joy of humans). The ousting of animals by humans would also be questioned. All beings on earth have the right to be part of the Game we call life. The competition of the species is not a matter of the strongest wins but a matter of the fittest survives. That applies to a species and not to an individual or group of individuals. If we would exist alone on earth and be able to survive without animals, we would be either like gods or destined to be extinct.