[ExI] forwarding tara maya's post: capitalism, etc

Ben Zaiboc bbenzai at yahoo.com
Thu Dec 1 16:46:47 UTC 2011


Kelly Anderson <kellycoinguy at gmail.com> wrote:

> ... as we treat animals today, we may well be expected to
> be treated tomorrow. Granting some rights to animals now, may preserve
> human rights in the future, when we are no longer the dominant life
> form on earth...


I've always found this a rather ridiculous idea.  It's equivalent to expecting that our treatment of cats would be based on their treatment of mice.

Ben Zaiboc




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