John Passmore (1914-2004) on the History of Animal Cruelty
Animal Ethics
OCTOBER 29, 2008
Whereas it once used to be argued, as by Newman , that the least human good compensates for any possible amount of animal suffering, the current doctrine is that it requires a considerable good to compensate for such suffering. Man-hunting is ruled out as a sport but not, at least with the same degree of unanimity, fox or bird hunting.
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