On the other, animals are property; thus, who's to say what you do with your property if it doesn't affect someone else? How do you legislate on "animal cruelty" without infringing upon property rights?
Have you ever examined the arguments for animal rights?
Yes, and some would say I'm a leading expert on such matters, inasmuch as I've owned several of them, and never once taught them to steal or otherwise break the law, despite the fact that animals, generally speaking, don't give much attention to the law.
If we had a solid respect for a moral code in this country, this debate wouldn't exist, but as it is, we don't, so those like you tell us that it must be the government who should legislate our morality for us, even though you can't legislate morality, as I'm often told by those of your ilk.
Quite a predicament that the moral relativists have foisted upon us, no? Loss of shame, loss of ability to reason, loss of meaning. And with that, so very many problems.
So there's the attempt to replace shame and reason with jail or fines... that's awesome, and not at all dangerous, because it puts the government in charge of what's considered moral, and as we all know, the government is always good, all the time, of course.
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Topic: Animal Cruelty?
