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On Dominance and Animal Birth Control

Animal Person

When taking the issue to simplest common denominator, spaying/neutering is essentially exercising human dominance over non-human animals. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters. We are making a decision for sentient beings that we think will be better for both populations. But who cares about me?

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On Dolphins as a Gateway to Animal Rights

Animal Person

I did tweet about " Scientists Say Dolphins Should Be Treated As 'Non-human Persons' " yesterday, as I think this is a Gray Matter for a lot of people and might be interesting to explore. The brains of dolphins have similar folds, like the ones we have and are linked with human intelligence. What do you think?

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On Bestiality

Animal Person

Now, mind you there are people who are actually mentally ill in the sense they 'can't get it up' without thinking of their mate as a fantasized non-human animal, I should mention this also includes mythological animals. Tags: Ethics. Any takers for any part of that?

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 8 of 13

Animal Ethics

Becoming a vegetarian is the most practical and effective step one can take towards [sic; kbj] ending both the killing of non-human [sic; kbj] animals and the infliction of suffering upon them. Tags: Moral Vegetarianism. Becoming a vegetarian is not merely a symbolic gesture.