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    Okay, so - I'm doing a short course in animal rights. I have to do a short paper on something about animals [insert any conjunction] jurisprudence. I want to do something that nobody else is going to do, because, well, I like being interesting. Unfortunately, I have discovered that I am... well, not interesting, so I want you guys to be interesting for me. Ideas? Bestiality is out (don't ask). I considered doing something on smallpox eradication but apparently viruses aren't animals. I was also considering some kind of analysis of the koala kidnapping in San Francisco in 2001 - ya know, different ways of constructing that act as a crime.
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    What about rabies and it's effect on the natural law of it's surroundings in pack animals (i.e families)?

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    How about a paper on Breed Specific Legislation?
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    ^^^
    That was my first idea - what with the recent Ontario pitbull ban, and the ensuing constitutional argument. However... what with the recent Ontario pitbull ban and the prominant lawyer challenging it, I think it could be a popular, common topic.

    And Mast - I'm interested, but I don't think animals HAVE jurisprudence. Although, if they did, it could be funny. Like racoon trials - not guilty by reason of mental defect.
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    why not explore the legalities concerning the Katrina animals who were left behing (to their owner's knowledge, only for a few days) and ended up being adopted out to families all over the country? There's been a couple cases where the original owners have sued to get their animals back from people who adopted the animals out of bad situations. I think NOLA is treating the animals as "lost property" rather than abandoned property.

    But there's also an ethics issue: can the original owner's provide as good of a life as the new owners, and what happens when animals change hands without the consent of the owner?

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    A paper on Meerkat Manor and how it affects us all! XD


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    shoot...or any of the chapters with animals in it in Fast Food Nation, whether it's the slaughter houses or the animal testing facilities. If you're a history nut, try including some backround from Upton Sinclair's -The Jungle- and see that legally changed what the industry could or could not do, and what's going on now that still could be changed.

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    And Mast - I'm interested, but I don't think animals HAVE jurisprudence. Although, if they did, it could be funny. Like racoon trials - not guilty by reason of mental defect.
    What about whether or not animals can be considered to be conscious (a common question in neurobiology), exploring lack of proof of consciousness as a reason that animals don't have jurisprudence.

    (I had to look up the word 'jurisprudence', btw, I hope I didn't use it wrong )

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    How about beastiality and the law?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jenny
    And Mast - I'm interested, but I don't think animals HAVE jurisprudence. Although, if they did, it could be funny. Like racoon trials - not guilty by reason of mental defect.
    I don't know, my interpritation of natural law was best described by nature and how things just are. Basically what we, as intellectuals, study as known as the "Philosophy of Law" is really us trying to regain what we lost as instinct. Like pack animals.

    It's an odd thought, but I always felt the focus of the study is to understand how we feel about something instinctivly. Why is X bad? Why is Law Y good for protecting from X?


    I dunno, but I am pretty obscure in most thoughts. And I digress not knowing much about this subject as defined by jurisprudence other than an awesome convo I had with someone a while back about what it covers.
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    Thank you everyone for suggestions - there are definitely some really good bouncing off points, and I really appreciate you guys taking time to... well, you know, help me write my paper. Letting me suck off all your original thoughts!

    Mast - my understanding of "natural law" is that it doesn't have so much to do with "laws of or in nature" as much as identifying normative morality as a basis for law. For example, we don't generally feel the need to justify why "murder" is against the law - we just know that it isn't nice.
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    By the way - I guess I should say that I meant "sucking off your original thoughts" in a vampire type way, not an oral sex type way. In case anyone was feeling sexually harassed.
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    My friend will write it for you,, He does it for a living

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    Thank you! What are your friend's qualifications? And does he know that you are volunteering his services to strange strippers you meet on the internet?
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    LOL..
    you can email me at [email protected] for the details...
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    Thanks, honey, but I was kidding. That would be a) academically dishonest and b) I'm in a grad program, so your pal would have to have pretty specialized knowledge to be useful for me.
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    Just trying to lend a helping hand...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jenny
    Mast - my understanding of "natural law" is that it doesn't have so much to do with "laws of or in nature" as much as identifying normative morality as a basis for law. For example, we don't generally feel the need to justify why "murder" is against the law - we just know that it isn't nice.
    Right, now, pardon my very amateur mentality with this, but jurisprudence is the study of law and it's fundamentals, correct?

    The conversation I had, which lead me to my idea was like (using your murder line) "Why is it that we don't feel the need to justify why murder is against the law?" My addition to the conversation being that when we've evolved/adapted/civilized ourselves with more complex theories and analyzations of law, we, to a degree, lost the value of plain instinct and thusly seek to explain why it is that "it just isn't nice".

    In relation, when I'm out with my friends, and one gets jumped, we don't try to justify why the one got jumped, we engage in their defense. Could be the guy getting jumped started it, in which case we'd be pissed for their lack of responsibility and putting us all at risk. Whereas the animal pack in a similar situation would protect their own and probably never care whether the one they where protecting was the cause.

    When I analyze natural law, my mind immediatly looks to instinct for reference, and I always look at nature for a reference.

    My rabies idea was found and descused while reading a few reference journals where a pack animal (wild dog in the scenario) was infected with rabies, and despite the inherent risk to the rest of the pack, the pack took many casualties before becoming definsive. Now of course this led to them all being infected. The key here is that in this scenario, they where slow to defend because the infected was one of their own. Rather interesting read, I'll see if I can find it.

    Again I may be so offbase and uneducated in this topic that I fail to see that this has nothing to do with the class you're studying, however I felt it worth sharing. If it's not stimulating, ignore it.

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