- Hello from Syria!
- What I say to people who tell me I’m motivated by pride to question the Church
- Why I love First Things
- Catholics and Republicans on same-sex marriage and public reason
- Please don’t leave the Catholic Church!
- So, being 28…
- On Overthinking (and Susan Boyle)
- How Heresy Becomes Theology
- Why talking to certain Catholics is like talking to communists
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No, not really. But I am eating meat again, and I accept the fact that eating pork is pretty much like eating a dog in terms of intelligence and sensitivity of animal being eaten. This is a tricky situation, in that animals are not people. They’re really not! But they also have certain rights that we ought to respect. Two good books are reviewed here about this, and the reviewer does a good job holding between saying animals are robots and saying animals are humans:
So thoroughly has the idea of animals as unfeeling automatons been discredited that Temple Grandin in Animals Make Us Human and Meg Daley Olmert in Made for Each Other, two books that explore the human-animal bond, dismiss this notion in a few clauses. Though my teachers were wrong about animals having no emotions, both books are reminders that they were right that anthropomorphism can lead to all sorts of problems for human and animal alike.


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