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It looks like it has, if he didn't take it down himself. It was the first one on top. There were a lot of people posting in the comments about how outraged they were about it.

Please check my Kisckstarter (Feed the Monarch: Monarch Butterfly Survival Kit) too, if you get a minute.

To me this thread highlights the the difference between 'abuse' and 'use.' 'Abuse' is welfarist language focusing on treatment. However 'use' focuses on the fundamental wrong, the breeding, use and killing.

More to the point, while other animals we adopt may need to be 'taught' things for their survivability / safety (such as around eating, not putting themselves in danger around, etc) this should be done with their interests in mind, not our own. As Tom Regan the originator of rights-based animal rights said they're trapped between two worlds, and we do our best to navigate the situation we have put them in.

I think it's also important to remember they are free-living beings who have been domesecrated. If they're yelling ('barking') at a noise, stopping on a walk to smell, and even going to the bathroom inside the house these behaviors are natural to them. I think any guidance we offer should be done respectfully with this in mind.

To your example of teaching them to spin in a circle, perhaps it would be a useful moral question to ask ourselves if we would teach a child who was disabled to do the same, merely for our enjoyment?

Ultimately the non-rhetorical idea of animal rights calls for the end of them being bred for our entertainment or 'companionship.' In the meantime I think our teaching should be for their benefit, not ours.

Great topic :)

I think it's worth talking to her, though I'm not sure about the most effective angle to take.

Honestly, I think Gaga is a pretty shitty person, but she IS a "role model" for a lot of young people, who may think that if Lady GooPoo is wearing fur that it's okay. And let's not forget the repulsively offensive raw meat dress http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/8-facts-about-lady-gagas-meat-dress

Best of luck to you! Let's hope that she won't continue to use cruel methods of shock and awe. I'm all for crazy, as long as nobody loses their skin over it.

I work in wildlife conservation and, while there are a lot of problems I have across the board (rhino horn for "traditional" Chinese "medicine" etc.), using animals as photo props is one thing that I consider to be really easy to change. To me, it is purely just because people don't think about what they are doing. And I can't blame them. It's so easy to just think of it as an enjoyable experience and not realise the true consequences.

But it is obviously really awful for the animals involved. These animals are kept on chains, often in the hot sun and the trade for the photo-prop trade threatens some species with extinction. They are beaten into submission and rarely properly fed or watered. And it's not just monkeys. Birds, snakes and tortoises are all abused in the most prominent and famous tourist square in the country. Thus far, the Moroccan government has ignored all of our attempts to contact them but we're still publishing papers and trying to get the word out that this is unacceptable.

I will look that up, and I hope you are wrong about most Palestinians. From the few I have spoken with and seen, they do want peace. But I do not speak for them, or the majority. Our conversation has also brought up memories of a book I read years ago, called The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East. I remember it being a beautiful story of hope, and faith in a future of coexistence. My memory of it is blurry, so I may read it again now.

I think this'll be my last comment, so I wish you well.

> Instead they rejected Wise’s argument that legal rights arise from an abiding respect for individual liberty and self-determination.

That's right, to hell with individual liberty and self-determination. Then they go on to explain that " Rather, said the court, rights are contingent upon responsibility. "

Then they make exceptions for the very young, old, mentally disabled, etc., they are still afforded personhood simply by virtue of belonging to the species homo sapiens. That sounds pretty arbitrary and dismissive to me.

As to the duties or responsibilities of animals, you just have to search the records of Europe from the 9th to 19th century to find many examples of animals put in the docket and prosecuted.

https://archive.org/stream/jstor-984029/984029#page/n1/mode/2up

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The pastor's page is private, but you can see his liked pages, which includes this gem:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Official-FISH-Philosophy-Page/65998337005

I think he takes it a bit too literally.

Get the dog out of there and buy emo boy a blow up doll to help him manage his problems.
https://www.amazon.com/Loftus-International-Blow-Judy-Doll/dp/B010R6I8V4/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=inflatable+dolls&qid=1602280011&sr=8-1

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Prime day is next week!

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