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On the Psychological Continuum

Animal Person

There is a general consensus that vegetarianism and veganism are different philosophically. And that means for the animal rights movement: Social entities like compassion, empathy and suffering are very important factors to motivate humans to change their behaviour. How about this? If I am understanding this correctly. ).

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On "Pets" and "Its"

Animal Person

Nobody stopped me" brings me to the parents, who were all omnivores (though there were two ex-vegetarians) and who were all thoroughly unaware of the language the children were using to refer to animals. Tags: Books Ethics Language parenting publishing speciesism veganism. That made sense to me for some reason and nobody stopped me.

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Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

Animal Ethics

In his fresh and candid first post (available here ), Jonathan admitted that he is struggling with the issue of ethical vegetarianism. He clearly thinks that it is wrong to cause animals to suffer unnecessarily, but he appears to be somewhat ambivalent about killing animals (provided the killing is carried out humanely).