Blog Assignment 7

In the essay Radical But Right, the author Sarah Wells claims that people should stop killing and eating animals because they deserve the right to live free from cruel treatments. In order to support this point, the author made two counterarguments. The first one is that animals are not as stupid and inept as a lot of people think. Actually they have intelligence, compassion and gorgeous characteristics. The second one is that animals have the ability to feel the physical pain, which many people have ignored. The author used a lot of examples in scientific experiments to show the intelligence and good features of the animals and to demonstrate that they can feel the pain the same way as humans do. He also gave evidence of the importance of the animals' ability to feel pain by quoting the ethical claims of other people. Also, the author described the poor living condition of the animals, which arose the sympathy of the readers. I think the essay is persuasive, since it gives out both the logical and the emotional reason of why we should not kill and eat the animals, and provides a great many evidences to support the idea. In addition, it compares animials with human beings, which increases the sympathy of the readers.