Scruton Animal Rights

Scruton believes the moral status animals are in three separate groups: pets, animals reared for our needs, and creatures of the wild. Animals should be let be and used for human use. “If all animals are persons, then there is no longer a problem as to how we should treat them.” Therefore, if animals were to be humans, than they would have rights as a person in the world, but they do not have rights and duties like everyone else does. He writes on how animals should be treated as the way they are now and let nature take its course.
For example, “The fox would have be duty-bound to respect the life of a chicken and whole species would be condemned out of hand as a criminal by nature.” He explains how if humans were to stop eating animals, it …show more content…
Animals cannot have rights because they do not contribute to the community as humans do. They aren’t like humans waiting on to kill one another for food. Animals’ betrayal one another to be able to feed themselves and still would be killed off. If a fox has to hunt a chicken for food, it won’t be stopped. For a chicken to have rights, they’d have to consent and if you ask for a chicken to consent, you’ll receive a chirp instead of an agreement.
On the other hand, Regan argues a whole different point of view from Scruton, he speaks for animals. Regan believes animals inherent value because their “sentient”. Scruton speaks of the unequal status that would happen when he writes about his responses of the animals eating one another. It wouldn’t stop the course of nature killing the animals. It’d be a disaster to keep animals away from one another to not kill or eat. They aren’t people or meet any criteria if …show more content…
Humans would have to deal with the situation of the over population of the animal not killed to feed people. There would not be a spot for animals to live, and if they take over cities, where would we live? We would have to fit them somewhere else but the zoo. They’d take over the human population and property. Everything for an animal to live in its habitat would take over land to recreate their home while we lose ours.
Furthermore, Scruton believes the moral status of animal rights is they have unequal status. “Creatures who are by nature incapable of entering into this dialogue have neither rights nor duties nor personality.” If they were to have rights than there would be requirements for consents of an animals rights towards humans. An example would be training a pet dog, how do we know what they dog has say in the training? Scruton believes we should leave animals alone to their duties because they have unequal