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Wild Animal Ethics Question/Inquiry

Reddit Animals

Hi, ive been thinking recently about how it may be wrong to save animals who are dying in the wild. Is it ethical to save a wild animal? Because if you save a animal that has become injured naturally you'd be getting rid of the circle of life and putting other animals without a meal.

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A Question for Animal Ethics Readers

Animal Ethics

I'd love to know whether philosophical reflection and argumentation has had an impact on your moral attitudes toward animals or on the moral attitudes towards animals of someone you know. Let us hear from you.

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

Reddit Animals

Reptiles that are not treated ethically simply do not make good pets. And their behavior is completely consistent with what we would understand as "animal sentience." Whether we like to admit it or not, we (culturally) view animals on a "sentience spectrum."

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Orcas Have Some Pretty Big Brains

Critter News

Tags: captivity animal ethics marine animals Orcas.

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Bernard E. Rollin on Animals as Ends

Animal Ethics

Surely any sentient or conscious being has states that matter to it in a positive or negative way—pleasure matters to an animal in a positive way, pain or fear in a negative way. So if human beings are ends in themselves, why not animals, since they too have feelings and goals that they value?

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Critter News Content to be Featured on AnimalRightsZone.com

Critter News

Joining us will be Animal Person , Creature Talk , and Animal Ethics. Starting tomorrow, Critter News content will be featured on AnimalRightsZone.com. Note - we'll still be here. But, some of our posts will show up on the new site as well. So, I hope you'll time to check out the site and check out some of the other bloggers.

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Leonard Nelson (1882-1927) on Duties to Animals

Animal Ethics

Moral philosophers, even those belonging to the Critical School [the followers of Kant and Fries], have often represented duties to animals as indirect duties to oneself or to other men. For instance, maltreatment of animals is forbidden on the ground that it encourages cruelty, that is, a disposition that obstructs fulfillment of duty.

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