Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

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. To view someone who spends their life starving, piercing, mutilating, terrifying and killing others as a mentor is shocking. But not shocked enough.

Animal Welfare 100

Animal Welfare Monkeys Animal Welfare Act Vivisection 100

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 9, 2009

Some of the arguments I will present are not worked out in detail, and no detailed criticisms of any one provegetarian argument will be given. You should survive as best you can, and killing the birds and eating them is the only way, given the situation as described. Consequently it would be wrong to kill and eat a bird.

Vegetarian 40

Vegetarian Morals Meat Vegan 40

Animal Ethics

MAY 6, 2009

The Argument from Speciesism If there is some doubt whether the arguments from monkeys and from glass walls should be considered moral arguments, there can be no doubt about the moral import of the argument from speciesism. Just as racism and sexism are to be morally condemned, so is speciesism.

Morals 40

Morals Vegetarian Speciesism Killing 40