“A noble death”{link » Cruelty for pleasure}
“It also doesn't follow from thinking animals have rights that we are duty bound to make interventions of an impossible kind into the interactions between other species. We can only do what we can do.” — Norm GerasThe tautology with which Norm closes his astute observation is an idiom worth further consideration. A common tactic of some authors (I refer to the author of the article about bullfighting, which is the subject of Norm's post) is to saddle the reader with straw-man arguments to support the insupportable. I have already coined an expression for such rhetorical devices: compressio ad absurdum. Norm's idiom is a useful antidote for such a strategy.
As for the second part of this post's title pun, suffice it to say that the evidence is lengthy.
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