article thumbnail

Can we talk about Cecil the Lion?

10,000 Birds

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. I’m just saying that it’s a bit more… Look, I understand you have an opinion. And that lions are really cute. I’m sorry.

Lions 203
article thumbnail

Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

Animal Ethics

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). We have already seen that Jonathan thinks that it is wrong to cause animals to suffer unnecessarily. What does he think about killing animals?

article thumbnail

Kermie

Animal Person

My imagination conjured a frog desperate to return to his home and family, but trapped in a surreal world of artificially-cold air, very little dirt, ostensibly no available water, and precious few bugs to eat. Outside he went, transported in plastic, back to his home in the wilds of suburban West Palm Beach.