An interview with Michael Hanlon on his new book Ten questions science can’t answer (Yet!). Lots of interestings bits scattered throughout. On animal sentience:
People used to put pigs on trial for murder in the Middle Ages.
On what society should do with the stupid:
…some people get perversely offended if you suggest that there are innate differences in human abilities. I don’t understand why that’s so. I think people are uncomfortable about talking about genetic difference in humans, there’s all sorts of horrible eugenics implications, but it’s common sense that obviously not everybody is the same.