Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Grainne who wrote (94033)	1/19/2005 2:26:49 PM
From: Oeconomicus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

More interestingly (to me, at least) are questions like this one--do you believe that chickens should have the right to flap their wings during their lives? I believe asserting that they have a "right" to flap their wings, or more generally that animals have "rights" at all, is a round-about way of asserting that humans have NO right to harm them in any way, much less eat them. If chickens should be allowed to flap their wings or if preventing them from doing so is cruel, that is a judgement only man (or perhaps God, if you believe God exists) has the capacity to make. And if man so judges, it is because of man's own empathy toward other creatures (or perhaps fear of retribution from God for acting cruelly). In any case, engaging in circular definitions of rights in order to rationalize their existence for animals seems to me a silly, psuedo-intellectual, show.