Humans, by contrast, employ their sapience to assess what they see, hear, smell, taste, and feel, then act on that assessment, not just to insure survival, but to enhance its quality. More to the point in this context, purpose , another product of sapience, is a phenomenon as unique to humanity as rights. People are the only thing in the universe with purpose. Philosopher Robert LeFevre observed that, in moral terms, there are just two kinds of entity in the universe, people and property. Animals are not people.
Animals are groceries.
They're leather and fur coats. They're for medical experiments and galloping to hounds. Not in any venue. His award-winning first novel, The Probability Broach , has just been republished by TOR Books . Next to advance to the next article, or Previous to return to the previous article, or Index to return to The Libertarian Enterprise, Number 17, October 29, 1996.