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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

He has volunteered to kill a deer cruelly, ineptly and with an outdated weapon that causes additional suffering to the deer. Iā€™m tired of hearing people who enjoy killing justify it with specious moral platitudes. Animals suffer when killed. To the Editor: In ā€œ Hunting Deer With My Flintlock ā€ (Op-Ed, Dec.

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Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

Animal Ethics

He thinks that the treatment of animals in factory farms is morally unjustifiable, and yet, he continues to support those practices financially by purchasing and eating meat and animal products. It goes something like this: Yes, I agree that factory farming is morally unjustifiable and ought to be abolished.