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The prescription of the equality of human beings is not a description of an alleged actual equality among humans: it is a prescription of how we shoul...more

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To protest about bullfighting in Spain, the eating of dogs in South Korea, or the slaughter of baby seals in Canada while continuing to eat eggs from ...more

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It is easy to take a stand about a remote issue, but speciesists, like racists, reveal their true nature when the issue comes nearer home. To protest ...more

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If we have learned anything from the liberation movements, we should have learned how difficult it is to be aware of the ways in which we discriminate...more

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I agree with Varner and Scruton that the more one thinks of one's life as a story that has chapters still to be written, and the more one hopes for ac...more

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To give preference to the life of a being simply because that being is a member of our species would put us in the same position as racists who give p...more

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We think of dogs as being more like people than pigs; but pigs are highly intelligent animals and if we kept pigs as pets and reared dogs for food, we...more