The Other Animals - an essay about animal rights.

With all I have read in mind I believe that animals, while still being treated humanely, are still there as a means to an end. While I am in opposition to torture and cruelty towards animals I still believe that humans are still superior to other earthly beings, and not just because of opposable thumbs. Once a person is old enough to have their own independent thoughts they begin to form ambitions, goals or other …

…homes or driving us to extinction? The answer to these questions is no, the superior creatures would not care what was to become of the other less superior animals. This situation of only the fittest survive is the same thing we are doing to other creatures. Only the situation that we are bringing is only being raised to a larger scale with each passing year, which could in turn lead to the destruction of ourselves.