Do you think that nonhuman animals have interests? Does this mean that they also have rights? Explain. Solution Human beings are living beings and so are the animals. A man is a known as a social animal only because he has the ability to speak and interact in a more civilized way than any other animals. But having said that, the rights surrounding to the human beings such as the ‘Right to live’, remains the same even for the feral human beings who are such humans who are raised in the Jungle and are isolated for some reason from the human world or contact. In this regard, if one cannot distinguish a feral child, who can simply screech or crawl, rather than walk on two legs and behave more like animals than like humans, from that of any other civilized human being, then such a distinguished nature of human beings towards the nonhuman animals, is simply a biased opinion. Animals are mute. They cannot speak for themselves. But they too have a heart that throb like a human. They feel hunger. They feel the pain too. Even they long companionship. They long for a community of their own to co-stay. Hence, I do believe nonhuman animals do have interests. In such a case, they also have rights. They are simply helpless because they are unable to reach us out in our ways. But that is not their fault. Perhaps the rule of nature. The nature requires all to co-exist and hence the Noah’s ark once gave shelter to creatures of all kind and not just restricted to the mankind. Even the nature wants the creatures to live in harmony and that is possible when we do not invade their territory but of course, let not them invade ours too. However, in today’s world, man’s greed has unturned the entire balanced eco-cycle. We have deeply penetrated into the woods and concretized the Jungle to the extent that we have quite literally done away with the interests of these nonhuman animals. For the balanced eco-system, the contribution of the nonhuman animals have also been very significant. But in a course of time, we snatched away their rights. Yes, we have laws in place to protect the near-to-extinct animals or to stop killing or preying the nonhuman animals for organs selling and other purposes. However, the illegal exploitation of these nonhuman animals have only helped us think that perhaps the interests of the nonhumans or their rights are of much lesser importance than that of the pleasure of the human beings for the only reason being that we, the humans can speak and represent for ourselves. In the mask of civilization, we are rather heading to a more sophisticated way of demeaning the rights of the animals or their interests..

1. Do you think that nonhuman animals have interests? Does this mean that they also have rights?
Explain.
Solution
Human beings are living beings and so are the animals. A man is a known as a social animal only
because he has the ability to speak and interact in a more civilized way than any other animals.
But having said that, the rights surrounding to the human beings such as the ‘Right to live’,
remains the same even for the feral human beings who are such humans who are raised in the
Jungle and are isolated for some reason from the human world or contact. In this regard, if one
cannot distinguish a feral child, who can simply screech or crawl, rather than walk on two legs
and behave more like animals than like humans, from that of any other civilized human being,
then such a distinguished nature of human beings towards the nonhuman animals, is simply a
biased opinion. Animals are mute. They cannot speak for themselves. But they too have a heart
that throb like a human. They feel hunger. They feel the pain too. Even they long
companionship. They long for a community of their own to co-stay. Hence, I do believe
nonhuman animals do have interests. In such a case, they also have rights. They are simply
helpless because they are unable to reach us out in our ways. But that is not their fault. Perhaps
the rule of nature. The nature requires all to co-exist and hence the Noah’s ark once gave shelter
to creatures of all kind and not just restricted to the mankind. Even the nature wants the creatures
to live in harmony and that is possible when we do not invade their territory but of course, let not
them invade ours too. However, in today’s world, man’s greed has unturned the entire balanced
eco-cycle. We have deeply penetrated into the woods and concretized the Jungle to the extent
that we have quite literally done away with the interests of these nonhuman animals. For the
balanced eco-system, the contribution of the nonhuman animals have also been very significant.
But in a course of time, we snatched away their rights. Yes, we have laws in place to protect the
near-to-extinct animals or to stop killing or preying the nonhuman animals for organs selling and
other purposes. However, the illegal exploitation of these nonhuman animals have only helped us
think that perhaps the interests of the nonhumans or their rights are of much lesser importance
than that of the pleasure of the human beings for the only reason being that we, the humans can
speak and represent for ourselves. In the mask of civilization, we are rather heading to a more
sophisticated way of demeaning the rights of the animals or their interests.