Animals have the same right to a free life as established in the quote because I put them and humans in the same biological/material category. Why did I do this? That is something I should have spent time elucidating when I first wrote the piece. I do address it somewhat in that the I’m primarily concerned with the physical security of the organism and in this sense animals and humans operate in similar fashions and are subject to the same whims of nature.
If you allow this categorical merging I think there is some logic in my argument.
T.H. Green:
Thomas Hill Green (7 April 1836 – 15 March 1882) was an English philosopher, political radical and temperance reformer, and a member of the British idealism movement. Like all the British idealists, Green was influenced by the metaphysical historicism of G.W.F. Hegel. He was one of the thinkers behind the philosophy of social liberalism.
As the great philosopher George Orwell stated:
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
Or as the sophisticated new-age philosopher William Jefferson Blythe III stated:
"It depends on what your definition of 'is' is."