Animal Ethics
JULY 8, 2012
Sadistic torturers provide perhaps the clearest example of cruelty in this sense: they are cruel not just because they cause suffering (so do dentists and doctors, for example) but because they enjoy doing so. For example, a woman is not cruel if she occasionally fails to feed her cat. Let us term this sadistic cruelty.
Animal Ethics
SEPTEMBER 20, 2010
We accept that the state has the right to ban cruelty to animals, even when such cruelty is in the interests of the person being cruel, for example, of the greyhound owner who trains his dog on cats, first removing the cat's claws to protect his dog from injury, or of the householder who half-starves his dog so that he can have an extra beer or two, (..)
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Animal Ethics
MARCH 6, 2008
Would you feel differently if Isenhour had driven golf balls at your cat or dog until he succeeded in killing your pet? If Isenhour had killed your cat or dog with the same kind of wanton disregard for your pet's life that he allegedly displayed toward the hawk's life, what kind of penalty would you want imposed on him? What say you?
Animal Ethics
JULY 21, 2008
Yet, in the case of domesticated animals especially, many people, particularly lonely people, regard (and often want to regard) their pet as a kind of lesser human being, with a less rich but still plentiful mental life which explains why their cat or dog behaves as it does.
Animal Ethics
JANUARY 21, 2009
Who Should Not Eat Meat, or What Does a Vegetarian Feed His Dog? Vegetarians certainly cannot think that only vegetarians have a prima facie duty not to eat animals or animal products. To see this, imagine animal-control officers putting a dog into their vehicle. The dog, let us say, has bitten a child.
Animal Ethics
AUGUST 24, 2008
They had a direct effect on seventeenth-century behavior as manifested, for example, in the popularity of public vivisections, not as an aid to scientific discovery but simply as a technical display. These teachings, it should be observed, were more than metaphysical speculations.
Animal Ethics
JANUARY 20, 2008
Causing an animal to suffer for no good reason is cruel, and our ordinary commonsense morality tells us in no uncertain terms that cruelty is wrong. A brief look at the public outcry concerning Michael Vick’s dog-fighting ring shows just how widely accepted premise (1) is. Animal abuse is a crime in all fifty states, and rightly so.
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