Post 7

Animals

I´m animalist, therefore my position in this topic is being against specism. It doesn´t mean I love animals, we can´t say I´m an animal lover. They like me, but I don´t feel a special love to them, I just feel the same likeability to them as any most of people.

I think animal life shouldn´t be a human propriety, so we have not the right to use them for shows or as raw material; we have not the right to lock them or damage them for our earnings. Although they are not rational beings, they have a subjectivity regarding they can feel (scare, commitment with their community, love for their offspring, pain, instincts, etc.), so I think it´s unacceptable use them for medical researchers, kip them at zoos, etc.

However, animal liberation is far away of real social conditions, and sometimes it´s necessary we adapt to this conditions to help them. Dogs and cats are too domesticated and they have a strong dependence to us, so we have to take care of them and this situation. That’s why it´s necessary we take them as pets.

In this country there is a problem with this, there are many people that abandon them. Some years ago I was in an organization that takes care of abandoned animals, and some of them were fierce with other dogs and some people. They sometimes bitted us, I got bitten many times, and not because they wanted attack us, many times they did it playing or it was because they are uncomfortable. In that situation it was necessary muzzle them and isolate them (not all the time, we moved on foot them). In that situations its justifiable do it, when it´s for their own goodness.        

Finally, I don´t liked to be an animal, because all they are dominated by human been, some of them by weaker ways, but if I was, I´d liked to be a predatory sea fish, because they are away from humans and I will probably have few animals that depredate me.