Posted on 01/17/2018 5:27:10 AM PST by Heartlander
Switzerland has followed New Zealand and a few other localities to outlaw boiling live lobsters. It also requires them to be shipped in salt water. Supporters claim that lobsters can feel pain, a dubious notion, given that they dont have brains adequate to process such stimuli.
But never mind. The Swiss epitomize the world we are creating once we reject human exceptionalism and elevate eliminating as opposed to mitigating suffering to top societal priority. That can drive policy into surreal regions of misplaced priorities. Consider:
Some might say, whats wrong with alleviating suffering? Of plants! But again, never mind.
The point is that this great concern does not exist when it comes to protecting the lives of suicidal, sick, disabled, and mentally ill people.
Switzerland allows suicide tourism, through which locals and foreigners attend suicide clinics that charge thousands of dollars to make their clients dead including joint suicides of elderly couples and an elderly Italian woman despairing over lost looks. The Swiss Supreme Court has declared a constitutional right to assisted suicide for the mentally ill.
Switzerlands enshrining of plant dignity into law, its outlawing the boiling of lobsters and the flushing of goldfish, and its blithe abandonment of the despairing to extinction in suicide clinics are symptomatic of our fast-eroding ability in the West to think critically and to distinguish serious from lesser ethical concerns.
Cross-posted at The Corner.
But infants in utero don’t feel pain and do not have to be anesthetized.
Cue tears for the bloody lobsters.
“Supporters claim that lobsters can feel pain, a dubious notion, given that they dont have brains adequate to process such stimuli.”
The supporters or the Lobsters?
The Swiss hid and sheltered German assets in WW2
why should they ever hold sway over anything?
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