10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 17, 2014
The system was intended as a hunter-centric model, both guided by and benefitting consumptive interests. A new willingness among scientists to consider certain moral and ethical implications with respect to wild animals, where previously utilitarian ideas prevailed, including ideas of intrinsic value.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 25, 2020
And, given the complicated questions of morality inherent in various parts of her story, she has the perfect (and perfectly ambiguous) ending. Gaines has written a fine story, with humor and sympathetic characters. She includes a good history of a time, culture, and part of the world not well known, at least not to norteamericanos.
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Animal Person
AUGUST 5, 2009
And before any hunter can blurt out "Have you ever seen a deer die of starvation in the woods? We hunters are helping the deer," remember that hunters aren't in the woods looking for exhausted, starving, sickly deer to put out of their misery. It's not pretty. They are looking for healthy, large ones. Besides, we have choices.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 12, 2015
I get that you’re really angry, I mean, he was a popular lion and yes, his cute widdle cubs will probably die to, but I can’t help feeling you’ve kind of missed the point a bit, and well, ending all hunting in Africa will not solve much and maybe make things worse and… No, no, I’m not a hunter.
Animal Person
MAY 10, 2009
Latimer refers to his previous two posts where he has "documented the ethical and moral shallowness of the 'animal rights' credo itself, which is based more on an anti-human self hatred, taking the form of a 'moral' squeamishness concerned more with stamping out human 'cruelty,' no matter what the social or economic costs might be.
Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 31, 2011
I’m tired of hearing people who enjoy killing justify it with specious moral platitudes. But whether with a flintlock or a modern rifle, hunting cruelly takes the life of a living, sentient being that has as much right to live as any hunter or writer. Hunters like him. May I recommend a trip to a slaughterhouse?
Animal Person
MARCH 9, 2010
Through semantic reversal, fishers (like hunters) pretend to promote rather than destroy life" (67). I'd rather extend moral consideration to something that can't suffer than fail to extend it to someone who can" (154). If fishers truly wished to revitalize fish populations, they would leave them alone. Overly generous inclusion?
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