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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frankspencer...Maybe we're closer than we imagined, then - there's some "vicious mole in nature" that inhibits certain (admirable) dispositions and heightens certain (repugnant) ones. And "mole", there, is a deliberate and shameless pun.
As for the arationality point: yep - I think I could go along with that. I'm not sure of the place of reason in ethics, but I do think that its centrality has been overplayed for the past couple of hundred years.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 12 Dec 2007, 9:31,
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