Re: Ask Howard Treesong About Law or Lawyering
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There are like a thousand sex crime related statutes that disagree with you on this.
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I'm thinking you're referring to things like registration statutes and residency limitations. I suspect without knowing that those are pitched as preventive measures rather than as additional punishments. I also could easily be missing your point, so if I am please describe one of the statutes to which you refer.
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Also, I'm a libertarian gun-nut and I would not feel the slightest bit of outrage if those guys were summarily put to death.
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Morally, I'm 100% with you. The guys that did this are total scum. But I don't think animals have rights per se; I think they are property -- and the rights violation here is to the property of the animal's owner.
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Not to tangent the thread, just pointing out that you've likely misidentified the philosophical underpinnings of your implied narrow view on what constitutes cruelty to animals.
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I don't think I have a narrow view of what is cruel to animals, but rather what should be criminalized.
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