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Global network of sadistic monkey torture exposed by BBC (www.bbc.com)

submitted 2 years ago by somefool@beehaw.org to c/news@beehaw.org

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[–] vacuumflower@vlemmy.net 1 points 2 years ago

I've met people saying that animals are property and thus something like this is not a crime.

Dunno why it came to my mind now.

Ah. That it's a good test showing that rights and responsibilities can't, in fact, be completely symmetric. An animal may not have responsibilities, but it shouldn't be abused.