What is wrong with animal rights activists?

Loaded questions are not suited to this forum. 1. There is nothing wrong with animal activists. Every country, state and jurisdiction in the world has animal welfare laws, and laws are the will of the majority. There is something wrong with someone that believes minority will should be forced upon the majority. 2. read more

The word "extreme" is defined as "of a character or kind farthest removed from the ordinary or average." In the case of animal rights, there is nothing wrong with seeking solutions that are "extreme" and far from the ordinary. read more

In fact, I think that the proper basis for individual rights—which I take to be Ayn Rand's theory of rights—excludes extending rights or legal protections to animals. For a concise summary of that theory, the reader should consult Rand's essay "Man's Rights," in The Virtue of Selfishness (New York: Penguin Putnam, 1964). read more

Excellent question. For obvious reasons, I am going anonymous here (as you know the stories in California) Animal Rights Extremists Increasingly Targeting Individuals They are blindly opposing animal research. read more