Oregon Legal Research Blog
Justice Bedsworth, in A Criminal Waste of Space, August 2014:
“Deciding Between Comfort Animals and Comfort Food,” by Justice William W. Bedsworth
Excerpt: “Edward O. Wilson is a biologist. A very perceptive biologist. He sums up the human condition this way, “We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology.”
No one who has spent even five minutes marveling at Facebook posts or deciphering Twitter feeds or counseling someone whose Instagram has come back to haunt him can doubt the accuracy of that observation.
And it occurs to me that there are few areas of human endeavor in which its application seems more ubiquitous than our relationships with animals. Especially when we try to write laws and regulations dealing with animals.
We love animals. But it’s a problematic usage of the word ‘love.’...” [Link to full Justice Bedsworth August 2014 Criminal Waste of Space column.]
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