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]]> Comment on New Feature: “Ask the Ethicist” by tgirsch http://sufficientscruples.com/blog/2008/04/30/new-feature-ask-the-ethicist/#comment-233442 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:55:23 +0000 http://sufficientscruples.com/blog/2008/04/30/new-feature-ask-the-ethicist/#comment-233442 OK, pursuant to some of our in-person discussions from Monday, how about a post on how we can properly make the distinction between conditions that are normal but unusual versus conditions that are "illnesses" which must be treated and/or cured. This is particularly apropos for things like mental disorders, as well as for controversial issues like transgenderedness. OK, pursuant to some of our in-person discussions from Monday, how about a post on how we can properly make the distinction between conditions that are normal but unusual versus conditions that are “illnesses” which must be treated and/or cured. This is particularly apropos for things like mental disorders, as well as for controversial issues like transgenderedness.

]]> Comment on A Long Night’s Journey Into Day by Sarah http://sufficientscruples.com/blog/2008/03/16/a-long-nights-journey-into-day/#comment-231619 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:18:15 +0000 http://sufficientscruples.com/blog/2008/03/16/a-long-nights-journey-into-day/#comment-231619 That was a fascinating, but very upsetting story. (If you wouldn't mind moving the photo behind the cut, and including a warning, I'd appreciate it. That image was a bit too graphic and potentially triggering to be just sort of thrown out there without a chance for the readers to prepare themselves. Thanks!) That was a fascinating, but very upsetting story.

(If you wouldn’t mind moving the photo behind the cut, and including a warning, I’d appreciate it. That image was a bit too graphic and potentially triggering to be just sort of thrown out there without a chance for the readers to prepare themselves. Thanks!)

]]> Comment on Malkin Spreads More Stupid, Shills for Misogyny by Dan M. http://sufficientscruples.com/blog/2008/06/04/malkin-spreads-more-stupid-shills-for-misogyny/#comment-218936 Sun, 08 Jun 2008 04:53:56 +0000 http://sufficientscruples.com/blog/2008/06/04/malkin-spreads-more-stupid-shills-for-misogyny/#comment-218936 You keep using that word; I do not think it means what you think it means. Fetuses aren't <a href="http://sufficientscruples.com/blog/?page_id=42" rel="nofollow">person</a>s. You keep using that word; I do not think it means what you think it means.

Fetuses aren’t persons.

]]> Comment on Malkin Spreads More Stupid, Shills for Misogyny by Andy http://sufficientscruples.com/blog/2008/06/04/malkin-spreads-more-stupid-shills-for-misogyny/#comment-217226 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:23:30 +0000 http://sufficientscruples.com/blog/2008/06/04/malkin-spreads-more-stupid-shills-for-misogyny/#comment-217226 How can PP claim it's doing health care when one at least person dies during the procedure? How can PP claim it’s doing health care when one at least person dies during the procedure?

]]> Comment on Chicken Petard: Have It Your Way by Willendorf http://sufficientscruples.com/blog/2008/04/09/377/#comment-205223 Sat, 17 May 2008 03:18:39 +0000 http://sufficientscruples.com/blog/2008/04/09/377/#comment-205223 The Center for Consumer Freedom is not a reliable source -- it's essentially a front for the meat industry. The Center for Consumer Freedom is not a reliable source — it’s essentially a front for the meat industry.

]]> Comment on Ask the Ethicist: Animal Testing by Kevin T. Keith http://sufficientscruples.com/blog/2008/04/17/ask-the-ethicist-animal-testing/#comment-190469 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:10:31 +0000 http://sufficientscruples.com/blog/2008/04/17/ask-the-ethicist-animal-testing/#comment-190469 Well, <em>you're</em> the guest-poster. You were supposed to supply the answers! As for <em>Omnivore</em>, I've also heard good things. I have to admit I put it up there largely on the strength of its reputation. I have a copy but it's among the million things I have to get around to reading. Maybe I'll move it up the pile a bit. Well, you’re the guest-poster. You were supposed to supply the answers!

As for Omnivore, I’ve also heard good things. I have to admit I put it up there largely on the strength of its reputation. I have a copy but it’s among the million things I have to get around to reading. Maybe I’ll move it up the pile a bit.

]]> Comment on Ask the Ethicist: Animal Testing by tgirsch http://sufficientscruples.com/blog/2008/04/17/ask-the-ethicist-animal-testing/#comment-189678 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:23:25 +0000 http://sufficientscruples.com/blog/2008/04/17/ask-the-ethicist-animal-testing/#comment-189678 Interesting stuff, even if it asks far more questions than it answers. As I side note, I've heard good things about <i>The Omnivore's Dilemma</i>. Perhaps a review would be in order. Interesting stuff, even if it asks far more questions than it answers.

As I side note, I’ve heard good things about The Omnivore’s Dilemma. Perhaps a review would be in order.

]]> Comment on Personhood by Sufficient Scruples » Blog Archive » Ask the Ethicist: Animal Testing http://sufficientscruples.com/blog/personhood/#comment-187390 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:05:37 +0000 http://sufficientscruples.com/blog/personhood/#comment-187390 [...] That can be an argument to the effect that animals are moral persons with equal claim to moral interests, compared to humans. Jeremy Bentham argued that this was an inevitable consequence of utilitarian morality over 100 years ago, and Peter Springer has resurrected that line of reasoning in a way that has been influential in the current aninal-rights movement. To make this argument, you have to define the threshhold for personhood fairly leniently. For Bentham, it was merely the capacity to experience pain. (&#8221;The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?&#8221;) From this perspective, any creature that can consciously experience pain is a full moral person, whether or not they have any other mental functions - so birds, fish, and of course all mammals are morally equal. This is why Singer promotes vegetarianism, and why some animal-rights advocates are against pet ownership as a form of slavery. [...] […] That can be an argument to the effect that animals are moral persons with equal claim to moral interests, compared to humans. Jeremy Bentham argued that this was an inevitable consequence of utilitarian morality over 100 years ago, and Peter Springer has resurrected that line of reasoning in a way that has been influential in the current aninal-rights movement. To make this argument, you have to define the threshhold for personhood fairly leniently. For Bentham, it was merely the capacity to experience pain. (”The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?”) From this perspective, any creature that can consciously experience pain is a full moral person, whether or not they have any other mental functions - so birds, fish, and of course all mammals are morally equal. This is why Singer promotes vegetarianism, and why some animal-rights advocates are against pet ownership as a form of slavery. […]

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