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Originally Posted by martyh
Actually Chris i would say it does .If enough people agree it is inhumane then it is said to be inhumane .I think is is agreed that foxes can be a pest it's just how we go about dealing with it .Enough people think that hunting with dogs is inhumane so it was made illegal ,isn't that how democracy works ?.
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Not really - we don't just live in a democracy. We live in a modern Western
liberal democracy. That means politicians are not supposed go around using their five-year lease on power to make wholesale, mandatory changes on the lifestyles of citizens. Criminalizing a widely enjoyed and historic pastime was counter to almost every convention and tradition of our Parliament, which is why it took such a vast amount of Parliamentary time to get it into law.
Further to that, my objection to the word 'inhumane' is that it is too often bandied about, to the point that its force and currency has been devalued. The human race is far larger than the electorate of the United Kingdom. I think it's fair for people to campaign on issues of acceptability or unacceptability within our society, but what is human, or inhuman, really should be reserved for bigger, global issues.