Poor logic in comments about animals
Re: "Animals, rights, suffering and responsibility", Letters, October 11.
John Arnone argues that animals don’t have rights because they don’t take responsibility for their conduct.
Using that “logic” it would be perfectly appropriate to eat and do torturous medical research on severely retarded or insane human beings who also may not be able to take responsibility for what they do. Should we also torture those who have advanced Alzheimer’s disease?
I have enough faith in the majority of readers to believe they are civilised enough to show love and compassion towards our non-human friends who share this planet with us.
Eric Bahrt
