{
    "href": "/post/2011/06/28/animal-rights-and-states-rights-not-quite-right/",
    "relId": "2011/06/28/animal-rights-and-states-rights-not-quite-right",
    "title": "Animal Rights and State's Rights: Not Quite Right",
    "author": "pmjones",
    "markup": "html",
    "tags": [
        {
            "href": "/tag/civil-rights/",
            "relId": "civil-rights",
            "title": "Civil Rights",
            "author": null,
            "created": null,
            "updated": [],
            "markup": "markdown"
        }
    ],
    "created": "2011-06-28 19:59:27 UTC",
    "updated": [
        "2011-06-28 19:59:27 UTC"
    ],
    "html": "<p>Per <a href=\"http://ricochet.com/main-feed/Correction-Not-Animal-Rights.-Human-Duties\">this article</a>, we have a great sentence:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Matthew intentionally, intelligently, and persuasively avoids any discussion of \u00e2\u0080\u009canimal rights,\u00e2\u0080\u009d writing not about the putative \u00e2\u0080\u009crights\u00e2\u0080\u009d of animals but about the moral obligations of humans.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>I have said for a long time that you don't \"own\" your pets. Instead, you are \"responsible\" for your pets.  Much as I love my dogs, I think it's fair to say that animals don't have rights, per se; we have duties toward them as living creatures capable of joy and suffering.</p>\n<p>Similarly, I have said that there is no such thing as \"State's Rights,\" only \"State Powers\" (as delegated to them by the People).</p>\n<p>I find these kinds of distinctions useful, not for pedantic reasons, but so that we can think more clearly about what actions are appropriate and effective.</p>\n"
}