Culling, Suffering and Transported

Can we talk about Cecil the Lion?

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2015

And you’ve posted a link to a petition to an airline to ask them to stop transporting trophies. Animal rights is concerned with individual animals, and their suffering and welfare. And culls of Nyala have been proposed. I’m just saying that it’s a bit more… Look, I understand you have an opinion.

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Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 23, 2006

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). I suspect that underlying his thinking here is a common rationalization that many of my students initially embrace.

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Can we talk about Cecil the Lion?

Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

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