Do you think Animals deserve the same rights as Humans? Why or why not?

The idea that animals could be considered legal persons with rights is relatively new. However, in centuries past animals were quite frequently involved in court cases in which they were put on trial. If they were found guilty for an offence the supposedly committed, such as murder and assault, punishments would be meted out, with some even being hanged for their crimes. This shows how humans have long thought of animals having at least some moral comprehension. However, opponents of the concept of animal rights argue that animals have neither a sense of morality nor an understanding of their duties towards others, and hence shouldn’t have rights. I believe that this is not the case though, as many experiments and studies conducted have time and again proven that animals are sentient creatures with emotions, thought, and the ability to regret, all things that are thought of as being “human-only. ” In one experiment a chimp called Nim was brought up with a New York family. The family, supporters of animal rights, raised Nim in the hopes of proving that the chimp in their midst would be capable of grammatically structured sign language. The experiment also focused on Nim's sense of morality. New Yorker Jenny Lee was 13 years old when Nim, then an infant chimp, was introduced to her family and became her "brother". She believes that even if Nim could not be persuaded to stop biting people, he did display some behaviours that seemed quite human. "He quickly understood how to say sorry and when sorry was appropriate, " Ms Lee told Newshour Extra. "He would very delicately kiss the tears off my cheek. " This perfectly encapsulates how animals To conclude this paper then, after reviewing the reasons for being opposed to assigning rights to non-human animals I am still faithfully for the idea. There is no justification for the barbaric and insensitive ways to which we have been treating the non-human animals over the decades. As I stated before, they are living creatures just as we are, they have families, emotions and struggles of their own without the ones we inflict on them. So then where does this leave us? Of course it is a complicated matter, but nonetheless non-human animals should be protected with rights against them being used as machines, for food, for their skins, their wool, and all cases in which they are being abused.