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But without being able to definitively prove their objective final value, things get a little trickier when saving a species means causing harm or significant suffering to sentient animals. Because now we cannot say we are causing that harm to preserve a timeless universal good. All we can say with confidence is that we are doing it for ourselves.
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― Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World
― Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World
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Peter Batten comments on the educational value of zoos: 'Whether anyone derives lasting benefit by seeing wild animals from other countries in enclosures which inhibit their natural behavior must be evaluated without bias. Should one learn that the chimpanzee, for example, is a neurotic humanoid that cadges food from humans, and throws tantrums and excreta should this not materialize? Or that the orangutan, which [who] by nature seldom descends to the soft forest floor, is a pathetic bundle of m
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― Thought to Exist in the Wild: Awakening from the Nightmare of Zoos
― Thought to Exist in the Wild: Awakening from the Nightmare of Zoos
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