Declawing Cats

[Anomalocaris]

The issue is should some people’s opinion of what is right or wrong binding on other people when what other people do could have no possible impact on those who think their own opinion ought to bind others.



I think cruelty to animals may be repulsive, but regulating it is in principle wrong.

Regulating cruelty to animals is wrong? What the fuck?

Yeah, it exceeds the boundaries of what good legal structure should do, in my opinion.

Laws don’t exist to make the world more perfect in your eyes at the expense of desires of others, no matter how strongly you feel what the other desires is sick.    It exist, at a level even more basic than to protect right, to set out a basic standard acceptable to the majority to make society function with more effectiveness and less friction.

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Because it is purely the imposition of aesthetic opinion.  Human society has in principle rejected treating non-human sentience as if what we artificially ascribe to them to be concern equal to the well being and prosperity of humans.

It causes pain, suffering and behavioral problems. It's not a matter of opinion. It's fact. Moreover, if you think your species is more important than another, I think you've lost the moral high ground. It's only our inflated sense of self importance that makes us feel this way. I doubt you or I are any more important than a speck of fucking dust, let alone an animal.

Causing pain and suffering to animals has never in principle been a issue as far as human legal principles are concerned.    Nor does this law attempt to make it a new thoroughgoing principle.   It simply impose some people’s squeamishness about particular way these pain are inflicted, upon others who don’t share this squeamishness.