You've been lucky, I think, Steve. I once, quite innocently, in a relevant newspaper correspondence, quoted Macaulay to the effect that the Puritan hatred of bear-baiting was not because it gave pain to the bear but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

I came home to four [count them! 4!] death-threats on my answering-machine -- one from a guy claiming to speak for an organisation called "Animal Rights Extreme", who assured me I would be 'eliminated'. (But, would you believe?, the silly bugger forgot to leave his name!)

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