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The Animals We Use

Animal Person

That's what I do, and it works, as in--people go vegan and stay vegan.

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Animal Companions

Animal Ethics

Here are three paragraphs from a recent essay by Roger Scruton : As I suggested, science provides authority for this weird morality only when clothed in moral doctrine. They put less weight on our “moral emotions,” such as embarrassment, remorse, guilt, and penitence. They’re comparatively undemanding.

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Selling Birds Short: A Heretical View Of Avian Intelligence

10,000 Birds

Where do Cook’s Petrels go to forage in the summer? And if you look into it enough, it presents a classic case where science can fail us. I believe in science. Science is based on logic and evidence, which I think is a very respectable way to look at the world. Science, for many years, has done no better.

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