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]
When you let other people tell you what you need you generally find that you really don't need that much.
ReplyDeleteYou 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.
Unless, of course, it's a "progressive" collectivist "need."
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