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By Craig McCarthy | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
on September 21, 2016 at 9:43 AM, updated September 21, 2016 at 9:47 AM
Two Rutgers law professors say that owning pets is immoral and would be considered torture if humans were forced to endure the same treatment.
Although Gary Francione and Anna Charlton live with six rescued dogs, the couple calls their abused animals refugees, and says they have the right to be free regardless of their quality of life with humans.
“Although we love them very much, we strongly believe that they should not have existed in the first place,” the two wrote in an essay in a digital publication onAeon. “We oppose domestication and pet ownership because these violate the fundamental rights of animals.”
Here is the the whole explanation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_L._Francione
Includes proponent of veganism.
Actually I agree. I grew up with a dog that was unleashed no leashing rules many years ago where I grew up.
After I came here I refused to get a dog , because I thought it was cruel to have one on a leash.
I also had a cat as a child in an area where it could run free outside and came to house to be fed. I also refused to get a cat because cruel to keep it indoors and unsafe, traffic wise to let it outside.
I still feel the same way. but I baby sit,dog sit ,a family dog , from time to time here in Ridgewood , on a leash, and that is that.
Dogs have been bred to be domesticated, but unfortunately can’t run free, due to traffic, other rules. They should , I believe, only exist on farms where they can run free. But everyone is entitled to their opinion. No one has forced me to get a dog or cat.
In order for them not to exist careful sterilization must be followed. That is cruel too, but the dogs on farm, should not be sterilized , I believe nor the cats.
Over population of people is a big problem. Should there be population laws governing people?
Listening to some professor is also a form of torture.
We in NJ have been paying this guy’s salary at Rutgers Law|Newark for 25 years plus. He laughs his way to the bank every payday. His Animal Rights clinic at Rutgers is also a preposterous waste of taxpayer money. What a life he leads…
prep63 2 days ago
What nonsense. This is what Rutgers students are subjected to?
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eyeonhudson 2 days ago
Why should anyone care what two law professors have to say about the morality of any activity? Theologians, ethicists, and even philosophers might be afforded some credibility in such a declaration, but lawyers?
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mcgillicuddlyiii 2 days ago
I have a feeling these two like to hear themselves talk. And just these two like to hear them talk, no one else.
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obamathedivider 2 days ago
Two liberal nut job professors at Rutgers, I’m shocked
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PortMonmouth1987 2 days ago
It is sickening that the tax payers of NJ are paying the salary for these two clowns.
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Dorlouis 2 days ago
Two idiots!
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njpaolo 2 days ago
First Rutgers thinks they can be competitive in the Big 10 and now this?? Aside from Gov Trash Heap, I’d say Rutgers provides the second most entertainment on nj.com.
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jmjral 2 days ago
This confirms that someone can be educated without being intelligent.
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bronx61 2 days ago
It used to be said that “mainstreaming” the mentally challenged from inpatient institutional settings into society created our homeless problem. Well, not always — apparently, at least two of them became law professors at Rutgers. BTW, how many pets did these two survey to reach this demented conclusion? And did they ask animals in the wild if they would rather be pets? I’d like to see their data.
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infiniti2009 2 days ago
Is everybody involved with Rutgers crazy??? Tampons in the men’s locker rooms? Give us a break. How did so many nutcases gather in one place at one time?
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jbigjake 21 minutes ago
@infiniti2009 The words “state university” come to mind.
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rt15years 2 days ago
Paying $31,286 a year for a Rutgers degree and knowing some of that goes to pay the salaries of these learned “professors” might also be considered immoral and a form of torture.
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overcompensated 2 days ago
I’m embarrassed to have gone to Rutgers. This kind of stuff, safe spaces, anti-conservative protests that are allowed. That’s why I never donate.
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ISTILLLOVEJERSEY 2 days ago
Do these Morons get paid with tax dollars?
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jbigjake 22 minutes ago
@ISTILLLOVEJERSEY Of course. It’s their right to be supported by taxpayers!
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noncents 2 days ago
This type of nonsense makes me question whether the earth is round or flat, because it seems we are approaching the edge and are about to fall off.
Ideal job: advocate for a client that can’t hire you and can’t sue you for malpractice, and get the state to pay your fees. There is no way a private law school would subsidize Francione’s preposterous professional pursuits.
Rutgers Law is a “safe school.,
It means you didn’t get into NY Law or Seton Hall Law.
Is Seton Hall Law is ranked any higher than Rutgers Law | Newark? If so, that’s a recent development. If memory serves they were both ranked in the fifties. Both have faculty longes run through with radical sixties liberals and their ideological descendants.