Animal Ethics

JULY 8, 2012

Cruelty is manifested in different ways. The central case of cruelty appears to be the case where, in Locke's apt phrase, one takes "a seeming kind of Pleasure" in causing another to suffer. Let us term this sadistic cruelty. Cruelty of either kind, sadistic or brutal, can be manifested in active or passive behavior.

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Reddit Animals

APRIL 11, 2023

This is also present in birds & mammals, however it is not fully present in fish & amphibians. Whether we like to admit it or not, we (culturally) view animals on a "sentience spectrum." " It affects the way we think about animals, and affects our views on animal cruelty.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 29, 2008

In all these cases, of course, a minority opinion would support laws which go further than the present laws in limiting the circumstances in which men are entitled to cause pain to animals. Man-hunting is ruled out as a sport but not, at least with the same degree of unanimity, fox or bird hunting.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 4, 2009

One argument is this: The present practice of treating animals used for food is immoral and should be changed. So, if one wants to change the present practice, the best means is to stop eating meat. First, it is dubious that becoming a vegetarian would have much effect on present practice.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 9, 2009

To the Editor: Re “ Animal Cruelty and Free Speech ” (editorial, Oct. The law speaks specifically and narrowly to the distribution for profit of videos that show illegal acts of cruelty actually being performed on live animals (my italics). I was privileged to be present in the court when this case was argued.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 23, 2006

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. Is it necessary for us to kill animals for food? Or are we killing animals unnecessarily when we kill them for food?

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