(July 31, 2019 at 1:38 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:(July 31, 2019 at 1:24 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: In many places around the world raping children and calling it “marriage” is accepted.
So, therefore, the rest of us should scrap child protection laws?
Here we can make a persuasive case that child protection benefits the society in general so enough people think they have enough skin in the game to put up with any inconvenience or imposition. It is clearly not persuasive to major section of even our society that outlawing declawing of cats benefits the society so they would willingly put up with the inconvenience and imposition.
(July 31, 2019 at 9:51 am)Grandizer Wrote: Not to be pedantic or anything, but bacteria are not animals.
But if we are not to prefer humans over non-human animals, why are we to prefer animals over non-animal life?
Oh, come off it.