Why We Should Be Treated Unjustly

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Everyone should be treated equally and with just. If we can treat our domestic animals marvelous as if they were our kids; therefore, why can't we do that of other animals. The Bill of Rights was made for the reason that we felt that we weren't treated equally, does that mean animal rights just fly out the window? Having these rights protects us from being treated unjustly, yet it doesn't matter if we're treating an animal unjustly, because they don't matter. If they don't matter, most people shouldn't matter too, considering they're just "animals" too. How we kill animals should be at least painless as there are places that kill chickens, pigs, cows, and etc. in awful matter. Individually as human beings the " Superior" beings should at least

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