Tag: animal rights
Why “Humanize”? A New Effort to Defend the Unique Dignity of Human Beings
One of the tragic trends in thinking about evolution has been to blur the distinction between humans and animals. History warns us not to regard this lightly.
Wesley J. Smith on Rights Gone Wild
Listen in as Smith discusses how science has been conflated with ethics and talks about animal and plant rights.
Judge Wishes She Could Rule Elephant a “Person”
This kind of thinking drives me nuts. First, we don’t treat animals as mere things or as being akin to inanimate objects.
Give Up Pets to Save the Planet!
Cats are, we are told sternly, an unsustainable “environmental vice that we must confront”!
Animal-Rights Fanatic Stabs Woman for Wearing Fur
The animal rights movement insists it is peaceable. For the most part.