Self righteousness can be a disease afflicting the true believers in any cause. But the animal rights movement seems to be home to more than its share of people who believe their cause is so right that they are excused from normal human constraints. They have no more consideration of others than the beasts they whose interests they place above humanity's.More than two decades ago, a childhood friend who grew up to become a world-renowned medical researcher, whose work has improved the lives of countless people suffering a horrible affliction (and who has had the extraordinary honor among medical researchers of having a medical syndrome named after him), told me of the trauma he and his family (including young children back then) suffered when animal rights protestors showed up at his house one weekend with bullhorns and signs making horrid allegations about his alleged cruelty to animals. In his efforts to prevent human suffering, he experimented on animals, you see. His children...(Read Full Post)