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On Helping Individuals and Utilitarianism

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Or paid for food for a year at a rescue kennel. Or printed thousands of copies of vegan leaflets. Of course, I have an emotional attachment to that one individual, Violet Rays. What about the individuals right there in the laboratory? But that's utilitarian thinking. Don't those individuals matter?

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On Coping Mechanisms

Animal Person

I don't need to "remind myself" of how bad it is to bolster my commitment to veganism. So I do what I can do, beginning of course with being vegan. I do what I do because it's the right thing to do--not because I want a reward or fear punishment. I rescue, I adopt, I do TNR, and I connect others to resources to do the same.

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