Myth # 58 : " But eating animals is legal ."
Myth # 58 : " But eating animals is legal ."
Yes , eating animals is indeed still legal . Of course , not that long ago in the United States , it was legal for an African-American to be owned by a white American ... Not that long ago in the United States , it was legal for married women to be sexually subjugated by their husbands and for all women to be judged as legally " inferior " to all men ... Not that long ago in the United States , it was illegal for homosexuals to marry the ones they loved ( and it is actually still illegal to do so in some states today ). And not that long ago , it was perfectly legal for the British to commit horrendous atrocities in Gandhi ' s colonial India , and for the followers of Hitler to perpetrate even worse atrocities on innocent Jews before & during World War II .
My Friends , quite clearly , just because something is deemed " legal " doesn ’ t come close to making it moral or Right … Indeed , for anyone to treat living , breathing , feeling , self-aware animals as mere pieces of property is a blatant form of bigotry – one just as immoral & just as unjust as any other form of discrimination . Massive social response to moral hypocrisy has been the ultimate downfall of every unjust system of government in human history , and unless we choose to make our systems of justice equitable & unconditional , a similar uprising will be the ultimate downfall of ours as well . For in Truth , no legal system has any semblance of real credibility until it extends to all its sentient subjects the same fundamental rights that it extends to its more privileged ones .
In essence , that it is currently legal to be callous & cruel & murderous towards animals does not prove that such perversions are acceptable ... It merely proves that the laws allowing such behaviors are themselves perverted .
Current status of this Myth : Mitigated Justification it provides for eating animals : NONE
“ How does legality establish morality ? Slavery was legal ; apartheid was legal ; Stalinist , Nazi and Maoist purges were all legal . As such , quite clearly the fact of legality does not justify such crimes . Indeed , legality alone cannot be the talisman of truly moral people .” ~ inspired by Walter E . Williams
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