Animal Person

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

With regard to cruelty and suffering, it's clear from the film that the human animal has been profoundly negatively affected by climate change, but there is no attention given to nonhuman animals. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Film climate change film review The Age of Stupid veganism. But they dismiss food.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 7, 2009

So, even if animals are killed painlessly and raised for food in humane ways, it is wrong to kill them. Presumably most animals—even infants—would have the right not to suffer. For it is argued that since every animal will suffer at least once in its life, we have a duty to kill all animals painlessly to prevent this future suffering.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 8, 2009

These people abstain from eggs and dairy products the production of which involves suffering for the animals. To avoid this complication, Martin should have stipulated that no suffering is involved in the production of animal legs. Suffering is more than pain. Think of the suffering involved in solitary confinement.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 21, 2009

Since animals cannot be judged morally praiseworthy or blameworthy, the question of whether it is morally wrong for them to eat meat cannot be raised. KBJ: Martin has raised a genuine issue here, but it is not about whether it is wrong for a dog to eat meat; it is about whether it is wrong for a human to feed a dog meat.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 9, 2009

First, I will raise some questions that usually are not asked, let alone answered, by moral vegetarians. In recent years another type of justification has been given: vegetarianism has been justified in terms of human suffering, rights, etc. Tags: Moral Vegetarianism. My examination will be divided into two parts.

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 22, 2009

Though we don't know the extent to which plants experience any kind of suffering, we do know that sentient nonhumans experience pain, pleasure, boredom and frustration. And atheists who were parented by believers have usually spent time examining the religion they were raised in as well as why we'd believe there is a god at all.

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Animal Person

JULY 20, 2009

Today it is a different situation, i learned from then about respecting animals and my life has been devoted to ending their suffering and torment. That letter makes me want to raise a boy, just so I can see the impulse toward destruction and cruelty. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Greyhound Matters.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 4, 2009

In fact, animals used for food do suffer a great deal. Not only are they killed in cruel ways, but it is well documented that they are raised in ways that cause them great discomfort and agony. Now there is no doubt that the actual treatment of animals used for food is immoral, that animals are made to suffer needlessly.

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Animal Ethics

MAY 6, 2009

Two questions can be raised about this argument from sentience. capable of suffering), then yes, it would follow that they matter, morally, because suffering is intrinsically bad. Because animals feel pain they should not suffer. Tags: Moral Vegetarianism. But no plant is sentient; no plant can see, hear, or feel.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

The question can be raised: Why should these organisms be killed and others not be killed? If they have a right to life because they have a self-concept, they surely also have a right to die and the right to suffer pain in the process if they desire. Tags: Moral Vegetarianism. But recall that shmoos want to be eaten. KBJ: Ditto.

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