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Ideas for 'The Lagoon: how Aristotle invented science', 'Animal Rights and Wrongs' and 'Nature and Meaning of Numbers'

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25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 6. Animal Rights

4296	Brutal animal sports are banned because they harm the personality of the watcher [Scruton]

4288	Many breeds of animals have needs which our own ancestors planted in them [Scruton]

4293	Introducing a natural means of controlling animal population may not be very compassionate [Scruton]

4295	We favour our own animals over foreign ones because we see them as fellow citizens [Scruton]

4268	Animals command our sympathy and moral concern initially because of their intentionality [Scruton]

4291	Letting your dog kill wild rats, and keeping rats for your dog to kill, are very different [Scruton]

4263	Many of the stranger forms of life (e.g. worms) interest us only as a species, not as individuals [Scruton]

4276	An animal has individuality if it is nameable, and advanced animals can respond to their name [Scruton]

4277	I may avoid stepping on a spider or flower, but fellow-feeling makes me protect a rabbit [Scruton]

4278	Lucky animals are eaten by large predators, the less lucky starve, and worst is death by small predators [Scruton]

4279	We can easily remove the risk of suffering from an animal's life, but we shouldn't do it [Scruton]

4289	Sheep and cattle live comfortable lives, and die an enviably easy death [Scruton]

4292	Concern for one animal may harm the species, if the individual is part of a bigger problem [Scruton]

4294	Animals are outside the community of rights, but we still have duties towards them [Scruton]