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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 12 of 13

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For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post. As far as I know, no good evidence has ever been collected to support or refute (1). People who do not eat meat for moral reasons tend to be less brutal than people who do eat meat. But Hitler was also a vegetarian.

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From the Mailbag

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The volume „Tierrechte – eine interdisziplinäre Herausforderung“ (literally „Animal Rights – an interdisciplinary challenge“ has just been released from Harald Fischer Verlag (publisher), Germany. The results of the lectures are written down in this book. More information on the book can be found here.

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J. Baird Callicott on Value

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Some suspicion may arise at this point that the land ethic is ultimately grounded in human interests, not in those of nonhuman natural entities. The question of ultimate value is a very sticky one for environmental as well as for all ethics and cannot be fully addressed here.

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Gardner Williams (1895-1972) on Wronging Animals

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And, in a world where there is too much hate, the judgment of many earnest moralists is overwhelmed by the charms of love; and there are those who come to accept it at its own valuation and are thus led to assert that people have an obligation to increase the collective total of all value in the universe. But few people do this.

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Tom Regan on the Animal-Rights Movement

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It is simply projustice, insisting only that the scope of justice be seen to include respect for the rights of animals. To overcome the collective entropy of these forces-against-change will not be easy. The animal rights movement is not for the faint of heart. Moral philosophy is no substitute for political action.

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Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

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Jonathan Hubbell, a philosophy major at the University of Texas at Arlington, is the newest member of the Animal Ethics blog, and once again, I would like to welcome him aboard. In his fresh and candid first post (available here ), Jonathan admitted that he is struggling with the issue of ethical vegetarianism.