Quote:I'm not sure I understand your answer.  It sounds like you think the government has no business legislating against animal cruelty.  So, to be specific, are you against animal cruelty laws?   Do you think laws banning animal cruelty fall outside your preferred role for government?    In other words, you would prefer that the government pass no law stopping me from setting dogs on fire as long as I own the dogs? 

 

I think the laws are unnecessary so as a default yes I'm against animal cruelty laws. Now if you want to have the discussion do animals have rights, that's a discussion to be had. If laws are passed for animals to have rights then they would be extended legal protection. As it is today, animals are property. If someone owns property they are free to do with it as they will.

 

There's so many ways to prevent animal cruelty without passing laws specifically forbidding someone from doing something with their private property.

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