socratic dialogue

Write a Socratic dialogue in which you discuss with a Crito-like figure about Animal Rights. Use some of Socrates’s techniques of asking questions and leading his interlocutor to see an issue the way he sees it. He gets Crito to accept a general principle and then shows how his action fulfills that action.

C: why do you fight so hard for these anikmals who cannot speak as we do? There is no reason to believe hey feel as we do when they cannot communicate in our same manner

W: Crito do animals not make sounds of anguish when struck or beaten?

c: they do make sounds

w: are those sounds no painful to the ear?

c: they are

w: humans make paiknful sounds to hear when in pain as well

c: that i agree to

w: the who is to say that animals are in lesser pain becaus they do not speak when the sounds they make are in mirror to tthe sounds we make to let others know we are in pain. no words are needed to let someone know we are in pain. they need simply to look at our face andour eyes and hear the oujnds we make

c: that which you sayis true

w: what then do you have in rebuttle?

c: i have nothing to say

w: then i will continue to fight for these creatures for they too live, breathe, suffer, and die as we do.