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Animal trials?
Yes, we need to make sure the blighted beasts know justice! 29%  29%  [ 2 ]
No, I'm a member of PETA and a pinko communist 43%  43%  [ 3 ]
Maybe, just so long as the trials are fair 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Let me see the results. 29%  29%  [ 2 ]
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02 Dec 2012, 1:43 pm

TallyMan wrote:
NAKnight wrote:
But giving animals "rights" as you would a human does not hold water.


In my opinion animals have a right not be treated cruelly. In most (human) legal systems this is enshrined as a law.


In some cultures that is the case. I agree with you that they do not need to treated cruelly.
Considering the US and it's post-industrial society, if we gave "Animals" those same rights as you would a human, could you see how that would create a vacuum in the legal system? I would go to "dog-court" and go to "dog-trial" for abusing my dog.


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02 Dec 2012, 8:33 pm

I testified as a character witness for a dog in a hearing at the county animal shelter in which the dog's human owners hired a lawyer. It was a criminal trial in all but name. So animal trials de facto exist already. So why not just recognize the fact in public?