(copyright Mark Cox; source) I am not hypocrite. I do not hold that it is ok to kill pigs for food, but it is not ok to kill dogs or dolphins with the same aim. “Superior” flesh-eating animals (humans included) always kill in order to feed themselves. This is nature’s food chain. Moreover, what we [...]
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The Neverending Story: Our Treatment of Animals
Posted in 01. Posts in English, 04. Ethics, tagged animal rights, culture, dog meat, endangered species, ethics, Faroe Islands, food chain, torero, whales an dolphins slaughter, whaling on December 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Rousseau and Bentham on animal rights
Posted in 04. Ethics, tagged animal rights, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislatio, jean-jacques rousseau, jeremy bentham, natural law, natural rights on December 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
„By this means, an end can also be made to the ancient disputes regarding the participation of animals in the natural law. For it is clear that, lacking intelligence and liberty, they cannot recognize this law; but since they share to some extent in our nature by virtue of the sentient quality with which they [...]
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