Resolution: Justice requires the recognition of animal rights. Negative position: Animals have no moral rights. They lack any sense of morality. They lack an understanding of their duties toward others. They lack the capacity for free moral judgment.

. . . Animals do not behave morally, and they are not members of a moral community.

Read the resolution and the negative position.

Which text evidence best supports the negative position?

"They lack an understanding of their duties toward others."

"Animals have no moral rights."

"They are not members of a moral community."

"Animals do not behave morally."

They lack an understanding  of their duties toward others

Explanation:

I am not of the same belief and therefore, I do not understand how someone could not think that animals have an understanding of humans and other animals.

in this text, paine use the word “ye” several times in order to  capture  the  attention of the colonists who   haven't understand the   importance and urgency of his cause. the word "ye" that is the plural of   "thou" is used to call the colonists attention and make the fight for the cause.

evertheless he ought to be slow to believe and to act, nor should he himself show fear, but proceed in a temperate manner with prudence and humanity, so that too much confidence may not make him incautious and too much distrust render him intolerable.

explanation: