Animal Ethics

MARCH 14, 2007

Perhaps she would argue that there is no double standard, i.e., that there is a morally relevant difference between human animals and nonhuman animals that justifies the difference in treatment. Are the lives of nonhuman animals less important, to them, than your life is to you? I can't imagine what it is.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 25, 2010

Like humans, animals have a right to enjoy life. They will still lack the freedom to engage in natural behaviors like foraging and nesting. Most will never know sunlight, breezes, plants or soil. At our farm sanctuary, we see how much chickens rescued from factory farms delight in these experiences.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 10, 2009

Does my proposal as to what makes killing another human being generally a major moral wrong in any way help us with deciding what, if anything, is wrong with killing non-human animals and foetuses? I believe it does help.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2022

As Montgomery shows, falconry is different from any other human/animal interaction. In The Hawk’s Way, Montgomery is very good on the ethical dilemmas inherent in falconry, centered on both the bird and the woman, even if she never resolves any of them definitively.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2017

Looking back, they can seem quite dated – questionable environmental ethics and anthropology and all that – but the sense of adventure that they conveyed, and the sense that I too, if necessary, could someday rise to the occasion and share a bond with nature, were catnip to a middle-grades reader.

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Animal Person

MARCH 26, 2009

Now, mind you there are people who are actually mentally ill in the sense they 'can't get it up' without thinking of their mate as a fantasized non-human animal, I should mention this also includes mythological animals. Tags: Ethics. Any takers for any part of that?

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Animal Person

AUGUST 5, 2009

And animal rights isn't focused on what happens in the world outside of us that we aren't directly profiting from and that isn't happening because of us (that last one is nearly impossible, as you can trace many problems other animals experience back to something human animals have done to them or their habitat or their food).

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Animal Person

JULY 15, 2010

It's difficult for me to understand how the act of thanking a god, who likely doesn't even exist, would matter to the nonhuman animal who is killed for the crime of being a nuisance to a human animal. Tags: Activism Ethics Language Cayuga deer hunting. What matters to me is that someone has ended my life.

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Deer Euthanasia Killing Ethics 100

Animal Person

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Finally, until we as a society develop a collective objection to killing human animals who have committed atrocities, we are unlikely to develop such an objection to killing nonhuman animals. But that doesn't mean we should work toward abolishing the death penalty first, and then move to the case of animals.

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District of Columbia Humane Cows Morals 100

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 2, 2011

I propose that the moral significance of the suffering, mutilation, and death of non-human animals rests on the following, which may be called the overflow principle: Act towards that which, while not itself a person, is closely associated with personhood in a way coherent with an attitude of respect for persons.

Morals 40

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Animal Person

AUGUST 9, 2009

Because when you compare two species, or rather a nonhuman animal species to the human animal, the humans almost always come out on top. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Greyhound Matters Language. Do you think this helps dogs?

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