Animal rights can be illustrated in two significant ways. The first aspect is animal rights serves as a primal social movement to protect animals—even intervene, manage to care, and liberate them—from exploitation, violence of cruelty and abuse. The second aspect is the idea that animals, like humans' domestic animals, have the right to be treated with respect as individuals with inherent value. Every animal is someone, not something, and they have the right to live free from humans inflicting pain and suffering on them. In addition, to deny this is to be engaging in speciesism, which is the idea that humans have been imbued with a set of exceptional attributes (such as speech, self-awareness, cognitive abilities, and a soul) that are unique to our species and thus give us moral priority over others. The animal rights philosophy does not place nonhuman animals above humans, but gives them equal consideration. This equal consideration means we should grant nonhuman animals the right to not be treated as objects—the same right we grant humans, at least in principle and philosophical viewpoint.