Werewolves Should Receive Equal Rights

I will defend my points and then attack my opponent's.1. Werewolves are People. My argument is NOT too shallow. I contend that related species, such as gorillas and chimps, are not people because they are not Homo sapiens. Werewolves are, in fact, H. sapiens (see definition). Humans (and werewolves who are not in the presence of the full moon) are people, and people deserve rights. This contention stands.2. Werewolves have no choiceI concede that this point was now well-thought out and it did not proove anything.3. Werewolves are not always peopleHere is a quote from my opponent's case:PRO is saying that because a Werewolf is not always a person, we should still give it some rights as equal as a human. Yes I am saying that because a werewolf is not always a person, we shoiuld give it rights. .. sorta. Because werewolves are not people in the presence of the full moon, they cannot be held accountable for their actions. People have the mental capacity to know they have done right and wrong, non-persons do not. See the "sending the wolf to jail" analogy. Werewolves do not have the capacity to understand what they are doing in their wolf state--my opponent, to rebut this point, must prove conclusively that werewolves can understand what they are doing in their wolf forms. Here is another:PRO also states that by not giving them rights, they will be harmful to society. I did not explicitly say this in this point. This is actully found in my next point; this is a waste of space, along with the paragraph that follows. Here is another:My opponent further argues that a werewolf doesn’t want to harm a person, yet he fails to give evidence to this. I may have not have made it clear; I meant that werewolves, in thier human form, do not want to kill people; I can back this up with the fact that most humans--which werewolves are for the most part--do not have sadistic or murderous urges. If werewolves have sadistic and murderous urges as a wolf, then okay; but they are not people as wolves, so they cannot be charged. This contentions stands.4. Werwolves benefit society. My opponent says that my logic is flawed in this point; he brings up the correlation-causation fallacy, and uses apes as a counterexample. While the counterexample is laughable (werewolves are humans while apes are not) I would like to take a closer look at it:-Werewolves are humansNon-contestable point; in the definitions that my opponent has accepted. -Humans benefit societyHumans buy goods, use services, work jobs, etc. and benefit the economy, and thereby the society. -Thereby, werewolves benefit society. Because werewolves are humans, and can buy goods, use services, work jobs, etc. ; werewolves benefit the society by benefiting the economy. Apes, etc. , cannot benefit the society because they cannot buy goods, use services or work jobs like humans can. This contention stands. Now I will move on to attacking my opponent's case. C1: Werewolves are not capable of thinking properlyMy opponent says that werewolves are part human, part animal. I concede that. However, this manifests itself as 100% Human for most of the time, while being 0% human for the rest. There is no mix. So, for the majority of the time, lycanthropes can think exacly like humans, and the rest of the time they cannot. from here, see my contention 3. This point is rebutted. C2: A werewolf's harmfulness overrides it's benefits to societyI will admit that werewolves are dangerous. However, "letting [lycanthropes] roam the streets at anytime" is a misleading scare tactic. Lycanthropes, most of the time, are humans, and should be able to walk the streets. My opponent also commits what is known as a "non-sequitor. " From his first paragraph he leaps into a paragraph that suggests that werewolves are not really connected; he asks wheather, "What makes a normal wolf different from a werewolf? What makes a gorilla different from a werewolf? " What is different is humanity. This point is rebutted. C3: Giving Werewolves rights are uselessFirst of all, werewolves are NOT 50% human, 50% wolf. The more accurate ratio is 80% human, 20% wolf. And for 80% of a werewolf's life, he/she is sentient. Giving werewolves rights is necessary becuase they can understand, recognize and exercize said rights. This point is rebutted. Seeing that I have proved my points and have rebutted my opponent's, I rest my case.