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3. f.
Doctrina, costumbre, etc., conservada en un pueblo por transmisión de padres a
hijos.
Los ingleses,
gentes tradicionales si las hay, abolieron la caza del zorro por brutal.
En España seguimos con los toros -“de toda la vida”, se
oye a diario como prueba de nuestra tradicional forma de vida. Los ingleses con
motivo de la abolición de
las corridas en Cataluña comentaron la noticia diciendo que se había abolido
una costumbre propia de “barbarians”.
Jeremías Bentham,
filósofo inglés del siglo XVIII es ampliamente reconocido, entre otros
atributos que exaltaron su sensibilidad, como promotor de los derechos de los
animales. Dejó claro que la capacidad de sufrimiento antes bien que la de la
razón marcaba el signo distintivo de las semejanzas que lo emparentaban con el
ser humano. Argumentaba que de ser así lo mismo podría argumentarse de los
niños menores –“infants”- y de los minusválidos mentales.
“If reason alone were the criterion by which we judge
who ought to have rights, human infants and adults with certain forms of
disability might fall short, too. In 1789, alluding to the limited degree of
legal protection afforded to slaves in the French
West Indies by the Code Jeremy Bentham
“The day has been, I am sad to say in many places it is not yet past, in
which the greater part of the species, under the denomination of slaves, have
been treated by the law exactly upon the same footing, as, in England for example,
the inferior races of animals are still. The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights
which never could have been witholden from them but by the hand of tyranny. The
French have already discovered that the blackness of the skin is no reason a
human being should be abandoned without redress to the caprice of a tormentor.
It may one day come to be recognized that the number of the legs, the villosity of the skin, or the termination of the os sacrum are reasons equally insufficient for abandoning a
sensitive being to the same fate. What else is it that should trace the insuperable
line? Is it the faculty of reason or perhaps the faculty of discourse? But a full-grown horse or dog, is
beyond comparison a more rational, as
well as a more conversable animal, than an infant of a day or a week or even a month,
old. But suppose the case were otherwise, what would it avail? The question is
not, Can they reason? nor, Can
they talk? but, Can they suffer?”
Noir, he wrote:
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