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Are Animals Sentient?

Animal Ethics

Here is a passage from John Rodman's classic essay "The Dolphin Papers," The North American Review 259 (spring 1974): 13-26, at 24: St. Augustine [354-430] had long ago decided that beasts were incapable of suffering pain, because otherwise God would be unjust. capable of suffering), (b) animals are innocent (i.e., Therefore, 3.

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