“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
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