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One of the main arguments that I make is that although almost everyone accepts that it is morally wrong to inflict “unnecessary” suffering and death on animals, 99% of the suffering and death that we inflict on animals can be justified only by our pleasure, amusement, or convenience. For example, the best justification that we have for killing the billions of nonhumans that we eat every year is that we enjoy the taste of animal flesh and animal products. This is not an acceptable justification if we take seriously, as we purport to, that it is wrong to inflict unnecessary suffering or death on animals, and it illustrates the confused thinking that I characterize as our “moral schizophrenia” when it comes to nonhumans. A follow-up question that I often get is: “What about vivisection? Surely that use of animals is not merely for our pleasure, is it?” Vivisection, Part One: The “Necessity” of Vivisection | Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach http://bit.ly/ol179F


Gary L. Francione


#ethical #health #justification #moral #personhood

Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty.


Mario Vargas Llosa


#enough #eroticism #individual #justification #me

On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction.


Stephen Harper


#destruction #finding #justification #mass #particular

After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the truth. Who of us is able to say now whether Hector or Achilles was right, Agamemnon or Priam, when they fought over the beauty of a woman who is now dust and ashes?


Umberto Eco


#homer #iliad #justification #mythology #passage-of-time

When we say that humans have a “right” not to be used for these purposes, this means simply that the interest of humans in not being used as non-consenting subjects in experiments will be protected even if the consequences of using them would be very beneficial for the rest of us. The question, then, is why do we think that it is morally acceptable to use nonhumans in experiments but not to use humans? Vivisection, Part Two: The Moral Justification of Vivisection | Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach http://bit.ly/oREDH0


Gary L. Francione


#moral-justification #utilitarianism #vivisection #experience

There is more experience on the field of justification than on the camp of training. Sometimes, you got to take actions to learn more.


Israelmore Ayivor


#experience #israelmore-ayivor #justification #learn #training

Excuses are used to justify leaving the scene of truth without changing.


Orrin Woodward


#justification #change

Nevertheless, the mode, the justification, and all the games involved in this war were dishonest.


Dario Fo


#games #involved #justification #mode #nevertheless

Desperate? That can be a justification for all kinds of behavior.


Jessica Walter


#desperate #justification #kinds

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they're going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.


Amy Winehouse


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