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

Animal Ethics

Once a definite social movement got under way in the West with its objective the restricting of man's treatment of animals, it moved with relative rapidity. Moral philosophers began to regard it as an obvious truth that it is wrong to treat animals cruelly.

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The Florida FWC illegally killed 34 pythons and one 10-year-old pregnant Boa constrictor

Reddit Animals

" It affects the way we think about animals, and affects our views on animal cruelty. Snakes are highly specialized animals, who have undergone major evolutionary changes to their body & behavior to survive. You can dislike something and still recognize the ethical significance of that animal.

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