Animals rarely kill other animals for no reason.Originally Posted by Askthepizzaguy
Re: Animal rights thread
Animals rarely kill other animals for no reason.
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Re: Animal rights thread
Sasaki has argued that we can't object to senseless deaths of animals because cats hurt other animals. I think you've offered a good counter-argument.
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Re: Animal rights thread
If I may sound so snobbish, I like to think of humans as being above animals.
However, that is purely in a moral or civilized sense. Animals feel pain just as surely as we do, and to inflict pain on an animal in the name of anything other than self-defence or the need to survive is shameful.
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Re: Animal rights thread
I'd say its as valid an opinion as any, and it seems to have good, compassionate grounds.
Senseless killing, by definition, is senseless. That makes it unwarranted, unproductive, sadistic and destructive. None of these things are particularly commendable.
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At the end of the day politics is just trash compared to the Gospel.
Re: Animal rights thread
I think it is reasonable to try to prevent the most obvious cases of gratuitous suffering or torture of animals. But beyond that, do animals deserve to be given other rights?
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I don't believe so. I think that current animal abuse laws are sufficient.
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"That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there."
-Eric "George Orwell" Blair
"If the policy of the government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court...the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned the government into the hands of that eminent tribunal."
(Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, 1861).
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Re: Animal rights thread
Thought 'yes' before I gave it any thought but now I think 'no' Tribes and Fenring are right. Animal rights is unworkable we will have to do with a pledge for good behaviour of those making a living there, and act firmly against what everybody should be able to recognise as unacceptable.
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http://getactive.peta.org/campaign/t...igation?c=pfbw
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