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Pain & Rights

I think the issue is less who or what has rights and more the morality of man inflicting pain where doing so is unnecessary to achieve legitmate purposes. Notwithstanding that animal rights activists might not like the logical conclusions that could be drawn from such an analysis, I think David's statement that "what was morally relevant would not actually be the suffering but the difference in suffering between that necessitated by the humane killing and that which would be experienced if the animal eventually died of natural causes," is an approprite way to look at these types of issues.

by Michael Bacon on Tue, 02/20/2007 - 14:38

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