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Rutgers law professors say pets are 'animal slaves,' argue domestication is form of torture
The Washington Times ^ | September 22, 2016 | Jessica Chasmar

Posted on 09/24/2016 7:51:38 AM PDT by kevcol

They wrote that in a fair and just world, “there would be no pets at all, no fields full of sheep, and no barns full of pigs, cows and egg-laying hens. There would be no aquaria and no zoos.”

“If animals matter morally, we must recalibrate all aspects of our relationship with them. The issue we must confront is not whether our exploitation of them is ‘humane’ — with all of the concomitant tinkering with the practices of animal-use industries — but rather whether we can justify using them at all,” they concluded.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: education; liberals; peta; universities
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To: kevcol

Rutgers law professors are slavers.


41 posted on 09/24/2016 8:07:58 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: kevcol
My cats are my slaves, eh? Hm. Somehow my slaves have finagled me into cleaning up after them, feeding them, grooming them, playing with them, letting them out, letting them in, giving them treats, taking them to the vet, and they have completely taken over my bed.

Worst. Slaves. EVER.

42 posted on 09/24/2016 8:08:25 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady (They aren't being radicalized; they're being activated.)
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To: kevcol

He’s struggling to get his 15 minutes of fame.


43 posted on 09/24/2016 8:08:47 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Einstein: I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity)
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To: N. Theknow

My animal friends are free to leave whenever they choose. It is their appreciation of having their basic needs met and the companionship they find with me and each other that keeps them around.
Clearly these elites have never experienced inter species friendship.


44 posted on 09/24/2016 8:09:18 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Stop the Left and save the world.)
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To: kevcol

Lynn-Dah-The-Chowbrador would beg to differ.

Not only does she have a dedicated staff of one (ME) who feeds her, drives her around, gives her a lovely bed to sleep in, and exercises her daily.

I also sing to her, but she is losing her hearing.


45 posted on 09/24/2016 8:10:55 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: ConservativeMind

had sex once, but I backed out after a month and told her the truth.
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Exactly. I’d bet you that this guy has no problem at ALL with aborting babies.


46 posted on 09/24/2016 8:11:37 AM PDT by LydiaLong
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To: kevcol

Indeed, this Bozo never met my daughter’s cat.


47 posted on 09/24/2016 8:11:43 AM PDT by stevem
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To: kevcol

Start with an insane premise, then follow it doggedly to a lunatic conclusion. That’s modern academia.


48 posted on 09/24/2016 8:11:56 AM PDT by babble-on
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To: kevcol

When I was a kid, “Rutgers law professors” were smart people. I wondered what happened. The dumbing down of American education?


49 posted on 09/24/2016 8:12:02 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Proud to be a deplorable American. Go Trump!)
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To: kevcol
"Rutgers law professors say pets are 'animal slaves,' argue domestication is form of torture"

Just a college prank isn't it, or otherwise they are IDIOTS!

50 posted on 09/24/2016 8:12:11 AM PDT by rockinqsranch (America IS sick, and tired of the Clintons. It's time to say goodbye.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Awfully sorry about that last post. It was a cut and paste from another thread.


51 posted on 09/24/2016 8:12:21 AM PDT by LydiaLong
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To: kevcol

He’s doing this for publicity and lib cred.


52 posted on 09/24/2016 8:14:25 AM PDT by djpg
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To: kevcol
Heads up Beck! Twit of the Year photo: twit of the year d750fa243ee25ad7e11c74bc9e0987b4.gif As 2016 winds down, you have a challenger.
53 posted on 09/24/2016 8:15:56 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: kevcol

Gary Francione and Anna Charlton have picked a subject they cannot defend. Clearly a case of “Publish or Perish”........


54 posted on 09/24/2016 8:16:28 AM PDT by yoe ( Another Adorable Deplorable.....)
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To: bk1000

Thank you for the Biblical quote. I almost got there;)

Then I wondered how much tuition the students pay for this garbage. Probably not quite as much as my vet bills;)


55 posted on 09/24/2016 8:16:49 AM PDT by sodpoodle (Life is prickly - carry tweezers.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

My cats rearrange the blanket to suit themselves on what I once thought was my bed and I must position myself just so or they’ll sit there with looks of slight annoyance on their faces. They wake me at 7 every morning demanding their breakfast and each must have their own bowls placed in their own specific places. At 7 I must turn off the a/c (Texas summers) off so the backdoor can be opened so they can wander in and out most of the day. Come mid day when us humans are sweltering in the hot Texas summer, the door gets shut and the a/c comes on. When they get too hot outside, they’ll meow at the door to be let in so they can snooze under the ceiling fan and the best a/c vent in the house. They let me know in no uncertain terms if their box needs cleaning and when the bottom of their food bowl starts to show. If their collars fall off, they bring them to me to put back on immediately. Dad’s shoes aren’t for putting on his feet but containers for the critters they bring in. Someone is up and down all afternoon and evening letting them in and out and in and out and in and out. Books, computers, sewing machine, newspaper, or whatever must be set aside for belly rubs and back scratches. When they come in at night, they line up on the coffee table demanding treats.

And then there’s the dogs.

Now, explain to me who’s the slave.


56 posted on 09/24/2016 8:17:01 AM PDT by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: kevcol

Canids have been living with humans for tens of thousands of years. The interaction was initiated by the canids.


57 posted on 09/24/2016 8:17:05 AM PDT by Montaignes Cat
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To: kevcol

I say listening to Rutgers law professors is a form of torture, and should not be endured by me or my pet dog.

I therefore call for all Rutgers law professors to be freed out into the wild, away from the terrible responsibilities of teaching and paychecks, and spend the rest of their lives eating little berries, chewing on leaves and drinking out of what puddles they can find.

That might be too good for them, but I am a kind-hearted person.


58 posted on 09/24/2016 8:17:35 AM PDT by Pravious
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To: kevcol
domestication of animals is a form of torture that is morally and ethically wrong.

The assault on natural rights includes the detachment of the concept of rights from the human species altogether. Rights are moral rules enjoining persuasion as against coercion, and there is no way to applying morality to the amoral or persuasion to the non-conceptual. An animal needs no validation of its behavior; it does not act by right or by permission; it perceives objects, then simply reacts as it must. In dealing with such organisms, there is no applicable law, but the law of the jungle, the law of force against force.

By its nature and throughout the animal kingdom life survives by feeding on life. In a rational morality man's life is the standard of value. To demand that man sacrifice the requirements of his life to the "rights" of animals is to deprive man himself of the right to his life.This is extreme irrational altruism in action.

59 posted on 09/24/2016 8:19:01 AM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: rockinqsranch
and the NYSlimes paper accepted this without question.
60 posted on 09/24/2016 8:22:34 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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