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

Reddit Animals

link] The strategies used by professional reptile keepers are only successful because they take into account the behavioral flexibility of the reptiles. Reptiles that are not treated ethically simply do not make good pets. Imagine, for a second, that Chris Coffee owned tortoises instead of snakes.

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Philip E. Devine on the Deontological Stop

Animal Ethics

A second vegetarian strategy is simply to reject as immoral the balancing of animal pains against human pleasures. We can call this move the deontological stop.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 8 of 13

Animal Ethics

That these organizations have not gone far enough and that wide areas of animal cruelty still exist does not show that their methods are wrong. In any case, which various political strategies would be most efficient for achieving humane treatment of animals is an empirical question. Each of us can—and should—do many things.