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John Passmore (1914-2004) on the History of Animal Cruelty

Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 29, 2008

So while it is generally agreed that it is wrong to experiment on human beings without their consent in the expectation of making scientific discoveries, there is no such general opposition to animal vivisection. 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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Animal Cruelty 2004 Cruelty Vivisection

John Passmore (1914-2004) on the Moral Status of Animals

Animal Ethics

MAY 25, 2008

And by this they mean not only that it is wrong to enjoy torturing animals—which few moralists would ever have wished explicitly to deny, however little emphasis they might have placed on cruelty to animals in their moral teaching—but that it is wrong to cause them to suffer unnecessarily. Controversies no doubt remain.

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Morals 2004 Animal Suffering Vivisection

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John Passmore (1914-2004) on the History of Animal Cruelty

John Passmore (1914-2004) on the Moral Status of Animals

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