Animal Rights

"...animals do not have rights but are accorded protection by human beings." - Rush Limbaugh from 'The Way Things Ought To Be' 1992

There is a basic maxim of life: humans and animals are not the same. And, because this is a basic maxim in life, the left simply cannot leave alone. For a long time a wing of the left has been fighting to remove the fundamental distinctions between humans and animals, with the end goal of making humans the same as the animals. Rush saw this coming even back in the 1990s. In his first book, The Way Things Ought to Be, there was a chapter on the animal rights movement and, in typical Rush fashion, lampooned it into oblivion. Towards the end of that chapter, Rush summed up the ideas that animals have rights as follows:

“The point is that animals do not have rights but are accorded protection by human beings. When we establish laws against cruelty to animals, some mistake the laws to be the same as rights. They are not, however.”

Rush had just spent the majority of the chapter going over example after example of how animals are often being treated better than people, or where animal rights groups were grifting off their campaign to improve the treatment of animals. Unfortunately little has changed since Rush wrote the book. In fact, if anything, it has gotten far worse.