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On Different Results of Direct Action

Animal Person

Here's another direct action and its result, as described in an interview by Larry Mantle on KPCC Radio (it's the one called " Animal Rights vs. Animal Testing "). He speaks of the "mixed message of the animal rights community" that animals are so much like us, yet not enough like us to experiment on. That's one result.

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On SPECIESISM, by Joan Dunayer

Animal Person

Old-speciesists have a rights view of at least some humans but a utilitarian view of nonhumans (18). In some sense, of course, many (perhaps most) humans don't know right from wrong. Tags: Books Ethics Language. Despite human overpopulation and crowding, only nonhumans are said to "infest" an area (19).

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Where Does Entertainment Begin and End?

Animal Person

Free Speech may be a noble ideal, but perhaps we are better served by thinking of it not only as a right but also as a privilege. They certainly depict cruelty to animals, right? Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language animal rights animal snuff films free speech Supreme Court Vamsee Juluri veganism.

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On "Evil"

Animal Person

Are people who work in slaughterhouses and who vivisect their fellow sentient beings evil? Do you use the idea of "evil" in your thinking and processing of animal rights and veganism? Tags: Ethics Language. Is evil something you do but not who you are? Does evil imply you know better and you choose X anyway?

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

Animal Person

There's a vague sense that perhaps he cares about the dogs or thinks that what he does to them might present an ethical dilemma, but the overwhelming feeling is that it's all worth it. This one gives us a look inside the mind of the vivisectionist, Daniel Engber. Of course, "That's not to say dogs didn't have their niche in biomedicine.

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

Animal Ethics

But they now turn around the question what is to count as "making animals suffer unnecessarily," whether, for example, vivisection or fox-hunting are, in these terms, morally justifiable.

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

Animal Ethics

It should be observed, however, that if our analysis of the situation is correct, then this change in moral attitude resulted in a restriction of rights rather than an extension of them. The degree of restriction placed on human behavior, furthermore, is relatively slight.