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Next, a fellow introvert e-mailed me describing herself as extremely awkward socially as well as invisible and having social anxiety, and asking where/how she might be useful to the animalrightsmovement. Another bit of misinformation is that when you get diabetes it's forever.
It is not that they do no wrong, but that “right” and “wrong” here make no sense. And that explains, in part, the appeal of the animal-rightsmovement. One wonders whether Scruton has ever lived with—taken responsibility for—an animal. Perhaps if he did, he wouldn’t say such foolish things.
I know on some level, I think that’s something almost all of us can get behind…no one, except the most callous and cold-hearted of the human race things its fine to torture animals, or deny that they are capable of pain and suffering. This makes perfect sense. The logic of this is ridiculous.
Both, of course, were seen as victories, but the article's author, Richard Foot, asks: Do such successes mean the animalrightsmovement is winning its long, controversial campaigns to gain the same legal protections for animals as those ascribed to humans? restaurants by animalrights activists."
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