Reddit Animals

APRIL 11, 2023

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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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

Everyone was slamming on their brakes on a major road and as I crept around the mayhem I saw the reason: a turtle of some kind. Four people emerged from the cars and were practically tripping over one another trying to get to the turtle to carry him to safety. One small act of kindness perhaps, but for the turtle a life-saving one.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 19, 2009

For me, the focus on culture and tradition is basically an excuse for "anything goes" when it comes to animals. Are the kids cooking monkey, cat, dog, alligator or turtle? I wonder how much they learn about the animals other cultures eat. (In How about an ethical adventure ? But I bet anything doesn't go.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 12, 2006

It keeps its readers abreast of goings-on in the animal kingdom. Here is a story about the plight of the turtle. The New York Times does one thing well.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 27, 2009

Here is a post from Ethics Soup.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 11, 2008

One aspect of the question of whether animals have rights may now be treated. If animals have rights, then these are welfare rather than option-rights. My pet turtle does not exercise, at his option, any rights over itself, things, or people. a nonhuman animal) the sort of being that can have rights?

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 9, 2007

But not long ago on a lonely road in northern Connecticut, I stopped to administer similar compassion, only to be stoutly rebuffed by a vicious snapping turtle that refused to be helped. I have done that, and afterward felt at least virtuous if not godlike. Robert Longley Salisbury, Conn.,

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