It is hard to know for what moral failings future generations will hold us to task. If one peruses the pages of “progressive” publications in the US, my impression is that one will find several times more discussion about animal rights than about international labor mobility. Yet millions of people on the planet live less well than domestic animals in the US,22 and these people are trapped into their present and future condition of poverty by the violence that is exerted at national borders. I hope that the future will judge us rather for the extent to which we improve the plight of our fellow human beings, even in the distant parts of the planet, than for our treatment of our pets at home.
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