Principles Are Non-Negotiable
This is Gus Van Horn at his finest. He adeptly integrates the importance of rights, not compromising one’s principles, and the folly of animal rights proponents.
As illustrated here and here, I have always been one who develops deep attachment to pets. But, as irrational entities they have no rights, and therefore should be unquestionably subordinate to humans in every way. It is precisely their lack of rights which precludes any objective law pertaining to them other than those protecting domestic animals as property.
