More On Criminalizing Dog Fighting
Jason Kuznicki at Positive Liberty reaches the same conclusion about criminalizing dog fighting that I did in these posts (though he says it much better): If anyone wants to cruelly kill their own animal, that ought to be their own business.
In addition to the reasons he provides, I’ll just say that my view is guided by the ‘ol “an eye for an eye” principle. Branding a human being as a criminal and putting that human in jail is infinitely worse than anything that human might have done to an animal. I’m not minimizing animals or the harm inflicted on them; rather, I have a very high view of humans and freedom.
