counterintuitive!

William Saletan appears to care about animal welfare, but still thinks that South Korea ought to legalize the slaughter of dogs, writing:

To comply with Western sensibilities, the Koreans officially banned dog meat. But they don’t enforce the ban, presumably because they don’t share the abhorrence. And why should they? Why exactly is it gross to eat dogs but OK to slaughter pigs, which, by most measures, are smarter? So we’ve started with irrationality compounded by hypocrisy.

I know it’s really sweet to be annoying and contrarian, but if you really care about animals, you shouldn’t be making the “moral consistency demands that we allow even more animals to be murdered than we already do” argument. He continues…

And, for the rest of you, I’m sorry to say that your practice—and mine—of slaughtering and eating sentient beings will gradually be recognized, God willing, as barbaric and obsolete.

God willing! It would appear that Saletan has no say over what he puts into his mouth.