My biggest take-a-way is found in the final paragraph. Increasing human rights is not about making new rights, it's about providing the rights to more people. Emancipation didn't create a new right. It just gave that right to black people. Women's suffrage didn't create a new right. It just gave the right to vote to women.
You can look at the Animal Rights movement as the same thing. It isn't creating a new right, it's just trying to expand the most basic rights ( life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness) to another group. I'm pretty sure I've heard animal rights speakers say exactly that. And that it IS the logical next step.
You can look at the Animal Rights movement as the same thing. It isn't creating a new right, it's just trying to expand the most basic rights ( life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness) to another group. I'm pretty sure I've heard animal rights speakers say exactly that. And that it IS the logical next step.
