Animal Person

JANUARY 6, 2010

I did tweet about " Scientists Say Dolphins Should Be Treated As 'Non-human Persons' " yesterday, as I think this is a Gray Matter for a lot of people and might be interesting to explore. You could be for or against animal rights and believe the gateway theory.

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Dolphins Animal Rights Rights Animal 100

Critter News

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) and Mark Kirk (R-IL) for sponsoring the measure that will prohibit the trade in non human primates. There is a list of reasonable exemptions, which you can read about here.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 7, 2016

In light of this horrible incident, is it right for the zoo to carry on a breeding program that subjects more animals to such unnatural lives? The zoo, surely, carries responsibility for deficiencies in its enclosure. Finally, what of the audience? The hysteria of the crowd surely played a part in escalating an already frightening situation.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 2, 2011

I propose that the moral significance of the suffering, mutilation, and death of non-human animals rests on the following, which may be called the overflow principle: Act towards that which, while not itself a person, is closely associated with personhood in a way coherent with an attitude of respect for persons.

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Morals Vegetarian Suffering Non Human 40

Animal Ethics

AUGUST 27, 2008

Man, said the ancient philosophers, is a rational animal. Animal: genus; common denominator of man and beast. Rational: species; the principle distinguishing man from beast. The preference for differentiation at the species level is an unjustified presupposition of the philosophic tradition. True Irrationality.

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Dolphins Non Human Humane Morals 40

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Unless you are nothing but the lowly diehard lister, for which you should feel much shame and embarrassment for, birders and biologists alike frequently want to understand birds on a deeper level than how to identify the age, sex and species of a certain individual. What seeds does a Baird’s Sparrow eat? But I digress.

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