Not me, they have rights and lefts too.

People who honestly believe we are drastically superior and animals have no souls or feelings.

First off, I'm an animal lover. Most people are confused about the rights that they have as people. Animals have no rights. However, we have responsibilities towards animals, and often fail to carry them out appropriately.

“Rights”, as you are referring to, is an abstract idea or concept that is granted to individuals by a governing body, tradition, or nature. Furthermore, for something to be considered a “right”, it must apply equally to all, or it’s not a right: it’s a privilege for a certain few. The abstract concept of “rights” is purely human. Animals do not have the same worldview that humans do, so our ideology on this subject is meaningless to them. Animal behavior is entirely subject to instinctive behavior, which is governed by their animal nature. Humans are not solely governed by instinctive behavior. Humans have an ability to define additional concepts such as “right and wrong”, for example. This is an abstract, cognitive ability which enables humans to act in fashions which are NOT wholly instinctive. Animals do not have the ability to think in such abstract concepts. A lion, for example, does not have a concept of “right or wrong” with respect to whether or not it is OK to chase down a young gazelle, kill it by crushing it’s throat, and then rip it’s guts open and feed. It does not think in abstract concepts such as a gazelle’s “right” not to be chased down in a terrifying manner and have it’s throat ripped out just to satisfy the lion’s hunger. The lion only knows that the gazelle is prey which it can kill and eat. It’s worldview does NOT encompass the human concept of “rights”. Now, that said, within the human world animals ONLY have the rights WE confer to them. And those ‘rights’ are STILL not universal. Why? Because in the human world, for something to be a right, it MUST apply to all equally. This means if you were to actually apply, say, the concept of an individual’s right to live their life without fear of being tortured or killed by another to the animal kingdom, this would mean that the lion CANNOT legally kill the gazelle now. Why? Because this would interfere with the gazelle’s ‘right’ to live it’s life without fear of being chased down, having it’s life taken by a brutal act of violent suffocation, and then eaten…possibly while it’s still alive, in fact. It ALSO means that if you caught a lion doing such a thing, it would be subject to the legal punishments provided under law if convicted of an act of murder. Animals do NOT have the SAME rights as humans…because the human concept of rights are not meant, indeed they are not even applicable, to animal behavior. For animals, only nature and instinct define what their rights are. It is in the nature of predators to hunt and kill prey. It is in the nature of herbivores to consume plant life, not animal life. In nature, whether an animal is acting right or wrong boils down to survival or no survival. The lion who cannot kill a gazelle for food will die. The gazelle who cannot outrun the lion will die. So, in conclusion, animals SO have rights. They just don’t have the SAME rights that HUMANS have, because they CANNOT have those same rights by their very nature.

Hunters for one.