Accidental animal crueltyI once invented a brilliant game - I'd sit at the top of the stairs and throw cat biscuits to the bottom. My cat would eat them, then I'd shake the box, and he would run up the stairs for more biscuits. Then - of course - I'd throw a biscuit back down to the bottom. I kept this going for about half an hour, amused at my little game, and all was fine until the cat vomited. I felt absolutely dreadful.
Have you accidentally been cruel to an animal?
This question has been revived from way, way, way back on the b3ta messageboard when it was all fields round here.
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rob, Thu 6 Dec 2007, 11:13)
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...But isn't that simply speciesism? If you would've been unwilling to carry out those experiments on severely disabled human newborns, which have much less self-awareness than chimps, and, importantly, will never develop more self-awareness than they have right now, I don't see how you could permissibly experiment on the chimps but not the children.
Adult chimpanzees are persons in a way that human newborns aren't, and in a way that severely disabled human newborns might never be.
Speciesism is as arrogant and indefensible as racism.
*gets off high horse*
*eats bacon sandwich... pigs aren't persons, y'see*
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 7 Dec 2007, 10:53,
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