Tim’s Comments (group member since Jan 20, 2026)

Tim’s comments from the Sentientism group.

Hi Jamie. Very interesting conversation about zoos on BBC radio 4's Rare Earths programme.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00...

My personal view is that humans have no right to hold any other being/life form in captivity, so my base question to the programme would be to ask: do we have the right?

I try to put myself in a sentient life forms shoes and ask myself: were an alien race arrive on Earth and due to their superior intelligence decide to save the last few humans by captivating me and deciding to carry out breeding programmes by putting me in the cage of another female and observing our behaviour, would I be okay with that? Or would I say no, I'd prefer to spend my life in freedom. I might continue by saying: I understand you think your doing the right thing by the human species, but I'm an individual and as an individual my choice is to live my life making free choices in how I live it.

But it is an interesting discussion.

A Seed Once Sown is fiction. It is a novel I wrote due to my abhorrence for hunting. Set in the UK, it's a simple story about a man who murders a hunter, an act that sets off an outcry against hunting and huge public support for our murderer who sees himself as a vigilante seeking justice for the animals killed an butchered as sport.

The fictionalised TV interviews with people on both sides of the argument I still find very relevant today.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

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