(04-08-2010, 04:23 PM)thefool Wrote: Actually you did clarify a very important thing for me. You re-affirmed your support for the 'right to choose' for people, to choose the food they would like to consume either good or bad...
Well, to be more accurate:
We all have the choice about what to eat, whether to harm another being, etc. Do we have the 'right' to hurt another human? I don't think I would call it a 'right' but it's just the way it is on this planet.
I subscribe to the adage, One person's rights end where another's begin.
What's being disputed is not whether humans have the capacity to choose, because we all know that we do. Rather, the question is whether animals have any inherent rights, or are they just property for us to use and abuse as we wish.