Barry Lamb
speaker
704 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2022
last heard Apr 2023
Barry Lamb’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Sometimes it's okay to intervene on behalf of oppressed groups inside another country.
But many times it isn't.
It depends on a lot of things.
With wild animals, giving them rights means a right to exist on land of their own.
It's a right against invasion, colonization, exploitation, and intervention without just cause.
Domestic pets, zoo animals, these are animals we have intimate relationships with.
We love them, and they love us.
So their rights are very different from wild animals.
We owe them like we owe our family and neighbors.
If a coyote were attacking your dog, the morality is not at all complicated.
You do what you have to do to save your dog.
That trumps the coyote's rights to non-interference in her hunting.
We owe Happy the best possible life in captivity we can provide, because after decades of living with people, that is her community.
In a zoopolis, animals we have intimate relationships with have citizenship rights.
They have a right to well-being and protection, and their interests should be represented in decisions about what happens to the group.
In a zoopolis, denizen animals who are a nuisance aren't eradicated as a first resort or even a last resort, any more than its right to exterminate Waldensians or loiterers or people who go to Burning Man.
Just like nuisance people, denizen animals have some right to use the environment to
But unlike our pets, they don't have a right that we satisfy their material and emotional needs.
And we don't have an obligation to protect them from predators.
Going from today to a zoopolis future is a big change, a revolution in animal rights.
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