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John Passmore (1914-2004) on the History of Animal Cruelty

Animal Ethics

Man-hunting is ruled out as a sport but not, at least with the same degree of unanimity, fox or bird hunting. Biological warfare against human beings is generally condemned but not biological warfare against animals.

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John Passmore (1914-2004) on the Moral Status of Animals

Animal Ethics

And by this they mean not only that it is wrong to enjoy torturing animals—which few moralists would ever have wished explicitly to deny, however little emphasis they might have placed on cruelty to animals in their moral teaching—but that it is wrong to cause them to suffer unnecessarily. Controversies no doubt remain.

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