This WEB log considers issues involving assisted suicide/euthanasia, bioethics, human cloning, biotechnology, and the dangers of animal rights/liberation. My views expressed here, as in my books and other writings, reflect my understanding that the philosophy of human exceptionalism is the bedrock of universal human rights. Or, to put it another way: human life matters. (The opinions expressed here are my own and not necessarily those of any organization with which I am affiliated.)
One way might be to permit animal using companies to hide the names of shareholders. This is seen as potentially necessary because of tertiary targeting and threats, assaults, vandalism, and lawlessness aimed at people merely for being part owners of companies that use animals and companies that do business with companies that use animals.
posted by Wesley J. Smith @ 7:00 PM
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Mr. Smith, you've mentioned a basic nihilism before in reference to animal rights/liberation. Perhaps some of this nihilism is related to the fact that it is unreasonable to direct such lawlessness against people for their economic ties to various companies. The economy is more complex than the animal liberation movement seems to admit. Are we really to believe that there are essentially two completely separate economies operating in the world? How indirectly involved in animal use does one have to be in order to be exempt from suffering such lawlessness? People do business with companies, people do business with people, and companies do business with companies. (Whether they like it or not, some of the money spent by animal liberationists on utility bills each month will eventually pass into the hands of someone indirectly involved in animal use, which of course involves the liberationists themselves in the animal use, albeit indirectly.) Unless the animal liberationists have a way to track and influence the economic impact of every single unit of currency that changes hands in any way that is indirectly related to the use of animals, they are hypocritical in their philosophy and would seem to be simply lashing out for some root cause other than their purported concern for animals per se.
For some, I think, it is more a matter of wanting to tear down than really help animals. I compare the radical edge of AR/L to the anarchists of the early 20th Century.
Thanks for writing, and please (all) feel free to call me Wesley.
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