J. J. C. Smart on the Moral Elite
Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 28, 2010
If we judge this moral elite by its adherence to something like the Golden Rule of the New Testament, there is not all that much room for its improvement, except, as I suggested earlier, for the extension of our moral sympathies to nonhuman animals. I eat eggs though they may come from battery hens. I am myself not so heroic.
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