Accidental animal crueltyI once invented a brilliant game - I'd sit at the top of the stairs and throw cat biscuits to the bottom. My cat would eat them, then I'd shake the box, and he would run up the stairs for more biscuits. Then - of course - I'd throw a biscuit back down to the bottom. I kept this going for about half an hour, amused at my little game, and all was fine until the cat vomited. I felt absolutely dreadful.
Have you accidentally been cruel to an animal?
This question has been revived from way, way, way back on the b3ta messageboard when it was all fields round here.
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rob, Thu 6 Dec 2007, 11:13)
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EnzymeYou say: "I don't think, though, that recognising wrongness is always - or even often - sufficient to inhibit action."
I say: "Yes. That;'s my entire point. We act wrongly in full knowledge of it because that is in our nature."
Regards lying, I think we're on to a different element of morality or ethics there. I think physical cruelty comes from a more animalistic place in our psyche, somewhere that rationality never touches (except perhaps as guilt - which comes after the fact).
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