SWA #8 2/13/12

Fear Factories

p.364
1. Scully builds his point that the topic of animal cruelty should be a conservative issue by continuing to build on the point that the conservative party bases most of it's views on moral standards. He says that animal rights are a question of our moral standard and that conservatives are not scared to form a law from their moral standards. He also mentions that conservatives have certain "obligations" to deal with moral issues.

2. I think Scully means that since animals do not have the power to defend themselves, it must be our duty to speak for them. Our morals are what able us to have views on things. Animals can't express how they feel about being mistreated. Humans have morals for a reason, and if we think something is wrong we shoud fix it. If we do not, we just look like a bunch of uncivilized animals ourselves.

The different views represented by Scully is the view of how conservatives actually feel about the topic of animal cruelty and the way, based on their ideals, they should feel about animal cruelty. Scully says that "Conservatives have a way of dismissing the subject..." However he also discusses how the Conservatives "aren't shy about discoursing on moral standards." Conservatives do not feel they should get involved in the rights of animals and the treatment of them on factory farms. Scully identifies this as one view, the view point of the Conservatives. But by pointing out their prominant involvement in other issues because of "morals", Scully is expressing the what the Conservative party should feel about the issue. He is saying if Conservatives want to prove to the public their choices are right because they are based on good morals, they should help animals who are suffering because of our own selfish wants.