Stephen Harper, Canada's "Conservative Leader" likes Edmund Burke a lot. Harper advocates "banning child pornography, raising the age of sexual consent, providing choice in education and strengthening the institution of marriage". I haven't heard him on the topic of bestiality, but his mentor had a few things to say that are, well... remarkable.
"Men are carried to the sex in general, as it is the sex, and by the common law of nature; but they are attached to particulars by personal beauty. I call beauty a social quality; for where women and men, and not only they, but when other animals give us a sense of joy and pleasure in beholding them, (and there are many that do so,) they inspire us with sentiments of tenderness and affection towards their persons; we like to have them near us, and we enter willingly into a kind of relation with them, unless we should have strong reasons to the contrary."
Of Beauty. Burke, Edmund. 1909-14. On the Sublime and Beautiful. The Harvard Classics
Posted by mduvekot at June 13, 2004 11:53 PM