Animals Rights

Cats. After several futile attempts to capture them, it seems that they have learned their lesson. The old trick just does not work anymore. So I decided to stop feeding them as a form of penalty.

Arguably, They have no obligations to entertain me, certainly no obligation to be kept captive.

However, I have no duty over their well being too. If they died of hunger that is just none of my business. Since they resist domestication, there is no reason I shall feed them like a domestic pet.

Duty and rights are inseparable. They are not entitle to rights without fulfilling their duty.

Animal duty? Does it sound ridiculous?

If the notion of duty is crazy, so does the notion of animal rights. See rebuttals

I only accept the notion that human have the duty over nature and animals.

Sounds too anthropocentric?

Some vegetarianism movement claims that we should not eat meat because animals have the right to live without sufferings. They claim that meat-eaters are selfish, anthropocentric people that think that human are superior so we can sacrifice other animals for our consumption.

I have a friend who is a true believer of animal equality, and, meat eating.

He does not believe that human are in anyway more special than animals. We are better off only because we are luckier.

Based on this notion human are free to eat animals, precisely because animals are free to eat human too!

Sounds plausible to me though. (no rebuttal found)

So he has no blame to be devoured by a tiger as that is how nature works.

Anyway, back to animal rights. Even if cats are endowed with some rights, for instance the right to maintain indifference and cool, they just can't just stay cool forever. They need to learn to sacrifice some of their rights in exchange of some benefits. The smart ones will know when to act stupid and get rewarded out of human’s satisfaction.

But sometimes there are just excessive intervention from some third party which we call XX rights watchdog. These are the staunch advocates of rights for the group of people that do not need it.

At one point in time they decided that any private firm with at least one disabled employee need to have disability support facilities.

Then a lot of disabled people suddenly found their application being rejected by many private companies, especially those smaller ones, precisely because of their disability.

Being overprotective effectively preclude them from getting what they want.

Rights is an essential thing for most people but it is never necessary for survival. I hope the cats will realize this soon.