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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Ring of Fire...You're pretty much in line with David Hume there - although you would still have to be able (presumably) to give some account of those for whom we ought to have empathy. After all, if it's just a matter of my empathy for some and not others, and if I happen not to empathise with this or that person or creature, it's not clear that I've made a mistake or that there's any deficiency: it could be a bare description of my psychological make-up.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 12 Dec 2007, 9:28,
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