"There is no such thing as a right to mercy, not for the animals, and not for us."
I read that statement, and felt as if I had been hit in the stomach. No mercy? No mercy! hey . . . maybe we have forgotten something when we talk of rights and virtues . . . mercy . . . how valuable is mercy . . . what is mercy . . . what about mercy is a vice . . .what about mercy is a virtue . . . is mercy an unalienable right . . . things that make you go hmm.
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oh yeah, that statement came fromthe book:
Dominion: the Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy.
written by Matthew Scully, 2002, St. Martin's Press
Page 312 . . . on page 313 he says:
"Sometimes we speak of human rights and human dignity . . . as if these truths and natural laws have always been . . . advanced and refined through some Aristotlean inquiry calmly conducted across the centuries."
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