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Emotions can motivate people to act rashly. In a debate you need to use reason, logic and evidence, so appealing to common practice can be argued as providing evidence to back up a position.

With this proposition it seems people can confuse rights with welfare.

If we talk about Animal and child welfare then we can see that children and animals are protected bye stringent welfare standards, especially in the UK. Rights are not required, as welfare standards are imposed by statute and common law. Animal welfare standards require us to look after animals and keep them from harm and needless suffering, (Which is why sometimes we have to put an animal down if it is suffering)

likewise child welfare standards also requires a child to be kept safe from harm, kept safe from abuse and neglect and other provisions.

Under welfare standards, and not rights, are children and animals to be kept from pain and suffering.