Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

The animal rights movement is not for the faint of heart. How we change the dominant misconception of animals—indeed, whether we change it—is to a large extent a political question. To overcome the collective entropy of these forces-against-change will not be easy.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 24, 2012

Because animals are sentient (i.e., can experience pleasure and pain) and because they not only have but can act on their preferences, any view that holds that pleasures or pains, or preference-satisfactions or frustrations matter morally is bound to seem attractive to those in search of the moral basis for the animal rights movement.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2012

By way of an example take the Western Gulls that I studied on the Farallon Islands in California. But from the perspective of conservationists allowing introduced species to endure is to essentially sign the death warrant to dozens if not hundreds of species, something anti-ethical to what conservation tries to do.

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