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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 3 of 13

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The question can be raised: Why should these organisms be killed and others not be killed? Animals in the wild try to escape from hunters.) If they have a right to life because they have a self-concept, they surely also have a right to die and the right to suffer pain in the process if they desire. KBJ: Ditto.

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Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

Animal Ethics

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. Since it would not be wrong to eat the flesh of animals raised in that manner, eating meat is not morally wrong! [As