W. V. Quine (1908-2000) on Altruism
Animal Ethics
FEBRUARY 5, 2010
Is it to extend, in some degree, to the interests of individuals belonging to other species than [our] own? As regards capricious killing, one hopes so; but what of vivisection, and of the eating of red meat? One then proceeds, however, as one will, to systematize and minimize one's ethical axioms by reducing some causally to others.
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