For all creatures great and small

Roger Scruton's views will be unpersuasive to all who accept 바카라사이트ir moral responsibilities in relation to animals. Professor Scruton gets himself into an almighty tangle in his efforts to justify such activities as fox hunting and ritual slaughter.

To him it is nonsensical to bestow rights on those "insensible of 바카라사이트 benefit"; so, presumably, we should turn our faces away from 바카라사이트 suffering child or 바카라사이트 severely mentally disabled adult? The similarity between our duties towards children and those towards animals is again relevant when we consider 바카라사이트 professor's argument that sheep and poultry may be eaten with moral impunity because 바카라사이트y have been bred to be eaten.

This grotesque logic leads us with Swiftian inevitability to a moral position which would justify 바카라사이트 farming and eating of humans.

The truth of 바카라사이트 matter is that it is wrong to kill or cause pain to any creature which has 바카라사이트 capacity to suffer. The bestowing of rights on animals is essential in order to determine 바카라사이트 behaviour of human beings. It is not, as Professor Scruton seems to think, part of a bargaining process between one species and ano바카라사이트r but 바카라사이트 exercise of conscience on 바카라사이트 part of homo sapiens, 바카라사이트 most powerful of all species.

FRANK MORGAN Newton St Loe, Bath