Friday, March 26, 2010

If corporations are people, maybe animals are too

"Should animals, like indigent criminal defendants, be provided with legal representation by the state? It could happen. As Time has reported, on March 7, voters in Switzerland will decide whether to give 'domestic creatures . . . the constitutional right to be represented by (human) lawyers in court.' More...

I'm imagining that, before long, we will be seeing some serious LD rezzes on animal rights, although I don't think we'll select them to debate them because, at their root, they're a little bizarre. Still, the issues are fascinating.

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