Last year Leona Helmsley left $12 million to her dog, Trouble, setting off a heated courtroom battle. California just passed a proposition that says farm animals must be humanely caged. The legal line between humans and animals is blurring further everyday. When it comes to "animal rights," should your cocker spaniel be entitled to the same freedoms and protections as your kid?
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on my response. I thank you for continuing to push my thinking on this subject matter. This thread has caused me to think far more deeply on this subject than I have ever needed to. I very much wish to carry on our dialog, but it is leaving the more "philosophical" and heading for the need for science , and not just reason.
In our line of discussion, I have found myself with the desire to answer in scientific terms:
What is the brain center for school pride?
What is the brain center for religious thought?
Why do we become sports "fans" and have an allegiance to a team that we have no financial or familiar investment?
Why do we care, and indeed, why are we even emotional at all?
In many areas of our lives we exhibit different passions and compassions, and even mores. So for me to fairly treat your last response, I am left to come up with something more than just my opinion. You have me at disadvantage at the moment. You have the Bible to resort to on these matters. I have no desire to dissect either the Bible or religion , and wish to only answer your questions from my "side" of the aisle.
Thank you for your patience, and I will develop my response as quickly as my research allows.
- tek June 28, 2009 8:42PM
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