Baxx, I hear you there on your point about giving any credence to those people who complain about the very system that gave them the liberty to expound their views in the first place.

Whether non-human animals have rights or not is debatable, and a lot has been written by moral philosophers about this. Having rights does not necessarily require having duties, otherwise infants would have no rights.

That said, if dogs have rights, then so would cows and chickens. So the popular belief that many people in Malta are campaigning for animal rights is clearly absurd.

What I find most amazing is people who say they care more about animals (they usually mean cats and dogs) than they do about humans, and then claim they are for animal rights.

The main premise of the animal rights philosophy (irrespective of whether one subscribes to it or not) is that humans are animals. So one cannot logically be for animal rights and then say he cares less about the rights of people.

That said, non-human animals have no legal rights. The laws on “animal protection” were made either for environmental reasons or to cater for human sensibilities. Otherwise, the law would protect all animals equally, and killing a chicken would be murder.

I am generally wary of any member of the glitterati from stable, capitalist Western countries claiming to fight against the stability and capitalism that gave them the intellectual tools and the revenue which allowed them to indulge in intellectual pursuits in the first place.

If you want real literature, and an authentic indictment of anything, you’re better off reading Charles Bukowski or Knut Hamsun. Or read me.

I wonder how many of these were soldiers and police officers working overtime.

Take the case of that guy who had his jaw broken by a kick to the head whilst headlocked in Gianpula – I believe that that’s a mixed martial arts move not just anyone would pull off. And that would be deemed illegal even in one of those MMA fights where (almost) everything goes.

That’s because unborn human beings, whatever that may be, are not persons in the legal sense.

Shall we extend legal rights to all cells?

The person is probably just an attention seeker, I would not be surprised at all if the dead animals were just roadkill he collected and is using to prank all these *sensible* souls.

No animals involved, but admit to having done relatively stupid but harmless things involving the general public in my youth.

Well I suppose one can always blame the PN for that too.

Then you are not all there. If you care more about a dog than you do about a refugee, I have mixed feelings of pity and contempt for you. And this is coming from someone who’s been a vegetarian for over 20 years.