Animal suffering isn't pretend - Andy Masley
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We evolved to think it is
Some readers will say that animals awaken fantasy, if not heresy, in those who attach moral significance to them. Yet often I think it is the more violent among us who are living out the fantasy, some delusion in which everything in nature is nothing and all is permitted. As sentimentality toward animals can be overindulged, so, too, can grim realism, seeing only the things we want in animals and not the animals themselves. — Matthew Scully, Dominion (all other quotes in this post from the same book) A trigger warning that this post will talk about extreme suffering. I won’t show any…
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