Bad Arguments in Washington

One of the worst arguments I've ever come across has been raised in objection to the proposed Washington law to make sex with animals illegal.

But where are these caring voices when animals are being turned into chic purses, ground into all-beef patties, made to pull plows in infernal heat or poked with foot-long research needles?

Where was Roach when people floated proposals a few years ago to allow the use of hounds to hunt down cougars in the state?

The answer to the second question is no mystery. Roach was a proponent of hound hunting because cougars, in her view of the world, are evil felines that threaten people and beasts.

The senator's perspective about which creatures are worthy of our protection is as arbitrary as her proposal to protect creatures from "rampant" human sexual abuse. One can only imagine what Roach's take might have been had the man died after sex with a cougar instead of a horse.

Uhm, okay. So your point is that because we haven't outlawed the eating of beef we cannot outlaw having sex with horses? That makes so little sense it's like some kind of magic spell that leaves anyone who hears it stunned into silence.

In order to make arguments that people are going to buy, you have to have a least a minimal amount of contact with the moral understandings of others. Here we don't need to respond at all. Unless it is with the following: Dude, you just cannot have sex with animals. Let it go.

[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]