Friday, April 03, 2015

So Long and Thanks for All the Fish

India Declares Dolphins To Be “Non-Human Persons”... [More]
As not unusual, my favorite parts are the comments, in this case from resident self-appointed authority Gautamamanda.

"Every animal has a right to life"? What about those fish the dolphins eat?

"[K]illing to eat is not necessary"? Tell that to the dolphins.

They get a pass because of need. As our would-be controllers would tell us, is we don't need to eat meat.  Just like we don't need guns.

See a pattern here?  It's not about meat or guns.  It's about "to each according to his need," with someone else making that decision for us.

[Via Florida Guy]   

2 comments:

I R A Darth Aggie said...

When you let other people tell you what you need you generally find that you really don't need that much.

You don't need that SVU to haul your family of 5 around. Here's a Yugo. Or three cars, for that matter.

You don't need a 4 bedroom/3 bath house with a large back yard for your family of 5. Here's a a 2/2 condo with a micro-mini backyard.

You don't need a 70" LCD TV. Here is a 19" tube TV.

David Codrea said...

Unless, of course, it's a "progressive" collectivist "need."