arrest is a matter of enforcement. Believe me, you don't need an animal rights law for police officers to infringe on your rights. If you have a teaspoon in your kitchen, a police officer can theoretically arrest you, as we speak, for possessing tools related to the usage of narcotics (heroin is warmed in a spoon). This objection is, therefore, also irrelevant. Any rule can be abused; I actually consider animal rights rules to be the more positive ones.

You are right. Still the fewer laws the better. I am also for legalizing drugs, although I am totally against using them, never have and hope I never will.

I would like to add, for the benefit of the folks reading between the lines; I wonder what meanings the people involved in these discussions read into the term "a positive child". I would not be surprised if ethnicity and social class, as well as stereotypical demeanor, play some part here. Who's to say who's positive and who's negative? Are we talking atom particles?

To know or tell the origin of the other divinities is beyond us, and we must accept the traditions of the men of old time who affirm themselves to be the offspring of the gods - that is what they say - and they must surely have known their own ancestors. How can we doubt the word of the children of the gods? Although they give no probable or certain proofs, still, as they declare that they are speaking of what took place in their own family, we must conform to custom and believe them. In this manner, then, according to them, the genealogy of these gods is to be received and set forth.
Oceanus and Tethys were the children of Earth and Heaven, and from these sprang...

Plato,
Timaeus 40d-40e

Benjamin Jowett translation