Animal rights

Thank you for challenging me to this debate I accept it. I am personally surprised that I accepted this debate to start with, after reading your open arguments you are clearly blinded by your emotions and you are humanizing animals. I only usually accept debates where the technical aspect of animal rights are challenged not the 'emotional'. I feel like I could disprove all of your arguments with only one pillar: why can we not make emotional attachments to animals and thus not relate to them in any way? When I refer to animals I am referring to every member of the animal kingdom except humans. I would like to start this argument off by saying that you are humanizing animals which is a common mistake that western society makes. It is traceable to a simple mistake: you see animals on different types of medias acting and caring out things that humans do (personifying animals) and over time these thoughts overtake your mind and a person has sentiments for animals. People who actually have to actually work with animals every day (farmers) will tend to see them as they really are: stupid entities that can be eliminated in order to help human beings. Basically what I am saying is that you are being manipulated into thinking that animals are like humans and can carry out human like sentiments. Animals do feel sentiments but only 2 sentiments have been proven to exist: fear and hunger (we say psychopaths have underdeveloped sectors of the brain, hence they feel emotions like animals). Animals have nothing in common with humans in terms of understand and emotions. An animal will do anything for self preservation, it will kill who ever it needs to stay alive, this trait is not found in the average human. Your dog might be cute and it might snuggle up next to you but it is doing this just because you provide it with food and shelter it does not love you in any way, it stays around you because you are a proven protector of it's existence. I have no idea why you feel like you can relate to them, they are not even conscious (to the degree we are). Let me use a simple example to back these statements up: why do invasive species exist? They exist because if an animal is in another ecosystem where it has no predators it will eat up every other resource until there is nothing left. This trait will ultimately destroy the environment and in turn even the invasive species. It is suicide but why do they do it because they can not do anything else. would humans do the same thing, the answer is no probably not humanity has the ability to correct itself over time and protect it's existence (look at the canadian aboriginals). Because we are debating animal RIGHTS let me state why it should not exist. Laws were invented to protect humans from other humans. Animals are not humans but they can be used by them in threatening ways. So there must be laws protecting humans from animals (and ecosystems because they aid humans) but there is no need for laws that protect animals from humans. Animals do not feel pain the way we do. Pain is just an alert telling the brain that something is wrong. SInce humans have advanced we have the capacity to feel pain beyond an alert. Animals have not yet advanced so it is not morally wrong to torture them. When an animal is tortured it does not feel like we do it just gets an alert replayed inside its brain over and over again. There is nothing 'painful' about it, it my cry out but that is just it trying to relate to your moral side and a call for others to hear it there is nothing wrong with ignoring this call. Finally it is common ignorance to say that we can place ourselves in animals shoes. If you were to do that you would become a robot with no capacity for though or emotion. Going into their shoes would just place you in a state of sleep where you would have no idea what is going on. So it is ok to kill a bird for space. Let me finish by saying I don't care about sharks they don't care about me, I don't care about that stupid lion who saw a food provider and ran over to see if he still had food or shelter for him (unless it is hanging off of my wall) and I don't care about some gorilla who had his family gunned down because neither does he. But what I do care about is the survival of the human race and animals do have a purpose for that, they provide us with clean air (ecosystems deserve to be protected because they aid the human race), meat, recreational activities (hunting) and they can be used as tools, but I do not care about some stupid 'emotional attachment' which is unproven and does not exist so please to not respond with some 'argument' that includes you trying to relate to animals, please only use facts and numbers (that's all I care about don't let emotions blind you). Thank you once again and looking forward to ending this debate