Mary Wolstonecraft's Vindication Of The Rights Of Animals

To be selfish or to pursuit greatness only to make ourselves happy is what we as humans have in our blood and genetics. To only think about ourselves is the most efficient way for us to achieve and accomplish tasks and overcome difficulties. Therefore, every one of our actions is considered to be an act of selfishness since we do things only for the sake of our own pleasure and happiness. We tend to have this feeling that we can over power and are greater than everyone else, and we tend to think that especially when it comes to humans Vs. other animals in this world. The indication of "The Rights of Animals" has been used to imitate many cases that revolve around the idea of women's rights in the time of revolutionary movements. During this liberating movement, a forerunner of later activists that went by the name Mary Wollstonecraft issued her Justification of the Rights of Women in 1792. Her ideas were generally viewed as bizarre or unethical, and they were mocked in a nameless journal titled “A Vindication of the Rights of Brutes”. The author of this …show more content…
For example, Women should have the right to vote since they are just as capable of making sensible choices as men are. Meanwhile, dogs are incapable of comprehending such importance that can go into voting, so therefore, dogs cannot have the right to vote. There are several other noticeable ways that portrays how men and women can bear a resemblance to each other quite closely, despite the fact that humans and other animals tend to portray more differences. So, one might come to the conclusion that men and women should have equal rights since they belong in the same chart of species, while humans and nonhumans are considered an obvious difference and should not have these same rights as the humans do in this