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Vote For GA resolution Repeal "Prohibiting Animal Abuse"
Ministry Review
Written by: 
Zemnaya Svoboda
You may have read our recommendation regarding the underlying proposal to be repealed. If you have, you are unlikely to be surprised by our recommendation in favor of this repeal.
As the repeal text describes, the resolution grants non-sentients rights that sentients have not been granted by the World Assembly, imposes very particular moral standards on diverse cultures, bars self-defense against animals, and is structured poorly such that it poorly defines "animal" and "abuse" but does define a number of exceptions so broad as to be loopholes.
The Ministry stands by our opinion of "Prohibiting Animal Abuse" and thus recommend a vote FOR repealing it.
This recommendation was originally published on 2015-07-19. It was reposted as this dispatch for archival purposes.
