When we see that laws protect animals from unnecessary suffering, - TopicsExpress



          

When we see that laws protect animals from unnecessary suffering, they seem superficially impressive, but it doesnt take long, and you dont have to be a lawyer to figure out that if the law prohibits causing unnecessary suffering, it creates a corollary, meaning it permits us to cause necessary suffering. What is necessary suffering? Well, we write the laws, we enforce the laws, we interpret them. Turns out, its necessary for an animal to suffer whenever we say so. So our laws prohibit gratuitous suffering, the kind thats caused sheerly by what we might call wicked intent, but as soon as theres a human purpose - and really, almost any purpose will do - that suffering is necessary and protected. - Leslie Bisgould
Posted on: Sun, 02 Nov 2014 10:57:19 +0000

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