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>I do not consider animal lives worth valuing or deserving of rights So you're against animal anti-cruelty laws? Are you okay with animals like dogs and cats b

• Arnavion 8y ago
  >So you're against animal anti-cruelty laws? "I do not consider animal lives worth valuing or deserving of rights" is not necessarily the same as "I don't want animals to have rights". It can simply be "I don't care if animals have rights".
  • dsabanin 8y ago
    "I do not consider animal ... deserving of rights" is pretty much as close to "I don't want animals to have rights" as you can get.
• TomMarius 8y ago
  Cruelty means e.g. causing pain. We can kill animals without causing them pain.
  • cies 8y ago
    At a broad enough definition of pain, that is very hard. Many of our farm animals have strong family ties. In order to kill them you have to sever them ties. That hurts. If you see intellegent mammals being reunited after some time apart you will know they reeeeaaly love each other, much like we humans do.
  • saagarjha 8y ago
    > We can kill animals without causing them pain. We can, but it seems like we often don't.
• white-flame 8y ago
  Animal cruelty laws also police an active precursor behavior that might easily turn into human cruelty, which is a justification that really has nothing to do with the animals themselves.
  • saagarjha 8y ago
    That is an ancillary "benefit". The main purpose of animal cruelty laws is the obvious one: it's inhumane to hurt/torture/kill animals (depending on your jurisdiction).