{"id":1575,"date":"2021-10-13T12:52:23","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T11:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/?p=1575"},"modified":"2022-01-27T12:15:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T12:15:53","slug":"cato-and-ockham-on-slaughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2021\/10\/13\/cato-and-ockham-on-slaughter\/","title":{"rendered":"Cato and Ockham on Slaughter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Anything that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/12\/ministers-could-back-bid-to-cut-number-of-animals-killed-without-being-stunned\"><strong>makes life less-worse for the victims<\/strong><\/a> is welcome (but watch out for hidden poison that entrenches their miserable fate even deeper)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Preserving non-stun slaughter for \u201cfreedom of cult (or culture)\u201d is an abomination: Freedom of&nbsp;<em>belief<\/em>, yes, but not freedom of barbaric practice (slavery, genital mutilation, animal \u201csacrifice,\u201d gladiator sports, rodeos\u2026)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, <em>ceterum censeo<\/em>, no sentient creature should ever be harmed\u00a0<em>praeter necessitatem,\u00a0<\/em>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 \u2013 none of which are in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u201cfreedom of cult (or culture)\u201d is an abomination: Freedom of&nbsp;belief, yes, but not freedom of barbaric practice (slavery, genital mutilation, animal \u201csacrifice,\u201d gladiator sports, rodeos\u2026) And, ceterum censeo, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2021\/10\/13\/cato-and-ockham-on-slaughter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cato and Ockham on Slaughter&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3074,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[82],"tags":[61,72,71],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3074"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1575"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1577,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions\/1577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}