animals have animal rights. How will we decide? How will we as a community and individually give handups? How will we leave our magnificent Earth home for our children and grandchildren, for the bird "children", the fish children, the deer children, the cattle children, the lion children, the plant children, etc.
COMMENT: 1. What are some human rights?
2. What are some animal rights?
3. Description of living Earth: "We are not a collection of objects but a communion of subjects." (Thomas Berry, cultural historian 1914-2009)
Although the deer isn't intelligent as we are, humans are just as dependent on water as they are.
ReplyDelete1.Some human rights are the right to life, freedom from torture, freedom from slavery, right to fair trail and freedom of speech. Although some of these rights are under international law, some countries may violate these civil liberties. For example on an international estimate, about 81 world governments currently practice torture. Human rights and human dignity comes from God, and they should be respected for every person in accordance with CST.
ReplyDelete2.Some animal rights that animals (may) have are the right to life, safety (not to be beaten or suffering), no breeding and killing animals for food, clothes, or medicine, no experiments on animals, or entertainment. Animals should not be looked at as property, but rather a living creature that may be lesser(intellectually) than humans, however, they are a species that we share our planet with.
3.My comment on the “description on living earth: We are not a collection of objects but a communion of subjects.” is that humans are dependent on the earth and should be more respectful to nature in order to preserve the earth community for future generations. CST may be applicable/extended to the entire earth including animals and nature, in order to protect the "common good" of all created things.
3. I think we are a collection of objects. I see the world as a collection of molecules and macromolecules forming and reforming and transferring energy, but that doesn't mean we aren't a communion. I believe that not only are humans made in God's image, every atom of everything is. In some ways I don't see a difference between a tree and a human, both are awe inspiring.
ReplyDeleteEric, this might require some clarification.
Delete3. Treating the Earth as a collection of objects is comparable to a child with a full box of toys. By this we are playing with the Earth and when are bored and discontent with any of the Earth's toys we simply throw it away and move to the next object that fascinates us. Evidently in a community of subjects everyone of them operates in a system efficiently. The community only takes what is needed and uses necessary resources to advance the community. Unfortunately we are in the state of a collection of objects. We have lost touch with our previous ways of living on the land and giving back to it.
ReplyDelete1.) I believe that one of the most basic human rights that every single human being alive in this world is the right to live. With the right to live as the core of human rights, other rights such as the right to shelter, right to food & water, right to equality, and so forth should follow. What good is a right to equality if one does not have the right to live/life? People may not be able to choose where and when they are born into, but they should all have the right to live out the life that they were born into.
ReplyDelete2.) Despite animals and humans being distinctively different, there are plenty of animal rights that are parallel to that of human rights. For instance, the right to life is present regardless of rather or not the living species are human beings. Furthermore, the right to food and shelter, as well as the right to not be treated cruelly (animal cruelty) should be amongst many rights for the animals. However, not all human rights would necessarily apply to animals. For instance, the human right to equal speech or gender equality rights would not necessarily fit well for the animals.
3.) I view living Earth as a balance between objects and subjects. By this, I elaborate by stating that our daily lives within our society could be viewed as an objective form of living. Examples include going to work, the common good, care and support for the kin, etc. At the same time, our ability of free will and the yearning for connections with other human beings creates our subjective lives. In this field, examples includes interpersonal communication, interdependency, empathetic comfort, and so forth. Thus, my perspective on Earth as being a balance between objective nature of life and the subjective nature of life.
Is there a real need for horses to carry people around for fun in a technologically advanced civilization, with liitle care for their nutrition, psychological well-being and their freedom? We are at a place in time where our awareness has risen to a next level. Now we can begin to ask ourselves in solidarity, what do we truly need and equally as important what do those around me need? ...including the immigrant, the horses, the rocks, the trees and the water.
ReplyDelete1.What are some human rights?
ReplyDeleteSome human rights that humans across the world possess include: "Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance. Another important human right is "No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile."
2.What are some animal rights?
Some animal rights include adequate living situations, daily meals, and medical treatment as needed.
3.Description of living Earth: "We are not a collection of objects but a communion of subjects."
Living earth is a network of living organisms that works in cooperation to sustain the individual as well as the environment.
1. What are some human rights?
ReplyDeleteWhat are human rights? In my opinion there is no written work that says it better than the US constitution: Life, Liberty and Pursuit of happiness. These may seem abstract and appear to not cover fully the things that are needed to sustain a human, but that is because they are merely topical heading of much deeper things:
Life... If someone were to ask you what you need to live what would be some of the things you would say? Food? Water? Shelter? All of these things are required for the continuation of life and thus are basic rights of human beings to have. But humans have rights that extend to more than just sustaining their lives, they also have a right to their lives. Humans have a right to have their lives preserved and protected. Shelter is similar to the right to property. Humans have a right to a place to call home.
Liberty... At the core of every person is decisions. The Philosopher Thomas Hobbes in his writing called "Leviathan" determined that humans are at their base free. That they their entire life is all about being able to make decisions freely. Humans are beings that need to be able to make decisions to be alive. Which means that humans have the right to not be enslaved and to be able to do things on their own accord (while also accepting the consequences of those actions).
The pursuit of Happiness...
While this may seem like the most abstract of them all, and it is. Humans have a right to be happy. A right to be able to wear a smile and find the joy in the world around them. They have the right to spread their joy and put it fourth. They should be able to enjoy all of the things they do, to move through life and chasing those things that make them happy. (To a reasonable extent as well.)
2. What are some animal rights?
Animals have basic rights, just like people. The right to food, shelter, and water. They should also have rights that prevent them from being abused or killed (without reason). Animals are different from people, but they are still living beings, just like us.
3. Description of living Earth: "We are not a collection of objects but a communion of subjects." (Thomas Berry, cultural historian 1914-2009)
We live in a world in which everything is dependent on everything else. There is nothing that can exist without something else. Humans can live because the trees give us oxygen. the trees can grow because the water and ground provides them with nutrients. the bugs in the ground and the bugs in the air allow the plants to be pollinated and spread the seeds to grow more plants.