Clause 8 - Tests for registration:
Hunting Bill
3:45 pm
Mr Colin Pickthall (West Lancashire, Labour)
There is a whole argument there, which is an anthropomorphic one—our assessment of what happens to an animal killed by one means or another. If the hon. Gentleman will bear with me for a moment I shall come to that.
The hon. Member for North Wiltshire said that we cannot define cruelty, only what is more or less cruel—I hope that I am not misquoting him. I do not follow the logic of that. I do not know how there can be a comparative, without a substantive to which to relate it. We cannot have a concept with no meaning but know when there is more or less of it. It must have a meaning.