41. Animal Ethics: January 2007
if one's life is racked with pain and there is little or no prospect of recovery, death can seem, and be, preferable. The paradigm case of euthanasia is where a sentient being is terminally ill, will die soon anyway, and is in great pain. Death
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42. Animal Ethics: Philip E. Devine on the Overflow Principle
cruelty to animals. Animal pain will be bad in itself, apart from any consequence of that pain to human beings, but the badness of that pain will derive from a moral principle whose ultimate reference is to persons. Thus the ethics proposed here
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43. Animal Ethics: April 2008
were incapable of suffering pain, because otherwise God would be unjust. (Assume that beasts share neither in original sin nor in eternal life; then for them to suffer pain seems to contradict the principle that "God being just, no being suffers
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44. Animal Ethics
even some occasional red paint were understandable. Now, they've lost all credibility.Perhaps they should rename their organization "People Exemplifying Terrorist Actions."Mark Monse, Coppell
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45. Animal Ethics: July 2007
It is because we think their pain a bad thing that we think we should not gratuitously cause it. And I suppose that to say we have a duty to so-and-so is the same thing as to say that we have a duty, grounded on facts relating to them, to behave in
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46. Animal Ethics: March 2007
To inflict death or pain on animals for scientific or medical research is wrong morally, and ought to be prohibited. This follows from everything said in the text about the rights of animals. This does not mean that animals may never be
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47. Animal Ethics: June 2004
of Vittore Carpaccio 's 1503 painting The Apparition of Saint Jerome to Saint Augustine. Study it. Second, click here (PDF) for a wonderful poem about the painting (or rather, what's represented by the painting). Finally, click here for a
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48. Animal Ethics: August 2006
illness and is in serious pain as a result, we euthanize them as humanely and mercifully as possible. We don't transport them inhumanely across the country to one of the only three horse-slaughtering facilities in the country (one in Illinois,
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49. Animal Ethics: December 2003
even some occasional red paint were understandable. Now, they've lost all credibility.Perhaps they should rename their organization "People Exemplifying Terrorist Actions."Mark Monse, Coppell
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50. Animal Ethics: May 2004
such as cicadas feel pain, so I don't know whether the presumption against inflicting pain applies to them. I do know that it's not always healthy to eat animal products, as this man learned to his chagrin. (Thanks to Ally Eskin of Who
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