Reddit Animals

MARCH 30, 2023

I was driving tonight and there were a couple deer on the edge of the road so I beeped my horn and they didn't seem phased. I was wondering if perhaps as silly as it sounds, installing a loud horn car horn that allows you to select the sound(like a Tesla) and playing a lion roar or similar has any chance of being better?

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Kristof writes: "The juxtaposition of the two reviews made me wonder: Some day, will our descendants be mystified by how good and decent people in the early 21st century—that''s us—could have been so oblivious to the unethical treatment of animals?" I would replace "animals" with "fetuses." Good question!

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Animal Person

JUNE 20, 2009

They believe you can take a life that doesn't want to be taken in a humane way, and I don't agree. And when that happens, you know what direction you're headed: the justification of taking the lives of sentient nonhumans to please the palates of humans. It’s how we treat humans, too. And there's no way around that.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 7, 2009

The Argument from Animal Rights A stronger argument is made by people who maintain that animals have rights. In particular, it has been argued that animals have a right to life. So, even if animals are killed painlessly and raised for food in humane ways, it is wrong to kill them.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 23, 2006

Jonathan Hubbell, a philosophy major at the University of Texas at Arlington, is the newest member of the Animal Ethics blog, and once again, I would like to welcome him aboard. It truly is horrific and despicable to treat animals so badly. All that follows from that assumption is that it is morally permissible to eat some meat.

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