slaughter – Skywritings https://generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk/skywritings Stevan Harnad Thu, 27 Jan 2022 12:15:53 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk/skywritings/wp-content/uploads/sites/287/2018/07/cropped-orang1-1-32x32.jpg slaughter – Skywritings https://generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk/skywritings 32 32 Cato and Ockham on Slaughter https://generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk/skywritings/2021/10/13/cato-and-ockham-on-slaughter/ https://generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk/skywritings/2021/10/13/cato-and-ockham-on-slaughter/#respond Wed, 13 Oct 2021 11:52:23 +0000 https://generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk/skywritings/?p=1575 Continue reading "Cato and Ockham on Slaughter"

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Anything that makes life less-worse for the victims is welcome (but watch out for hidden poison that entrenches their miserable fate even deeper)

Preserving non-stun slaughter for “freedom of cult (or culture)” is an abomination: Freedom of belief, yes, but not freedom of barbaric practice (slavery, genital mutilation, animal “sacrifice,” gladiator sports, rodeos…)

And, ceterum censeo, no sentient creature should ever be harmed praeter necessitatem, i.e., beyond necessity for survival (as in the case of conflict of life/death interest between obligate carnivores and their prey, including the few remaining human subsistence hunting/fishing habitats – none of which are in the UK.

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