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Animals

Hunting For Consistency

Angus Taylor argues that to be consistent, we must either exclude some humans from the moral community, or else include at least some animals.

Let me begin with a story.

My mother’s family were minor nobility from Transylvania, near the border with Hungary. When Romania was invaded by Soviet forces during the Second World War they managed to make their way first to Switzerland, and after the war, to Canada. It was not until the downfall of the Ceausescu regime in 1989 that they were able to re-establish contact with former acquaintances. Last summer I had the pleasure of staying as the guest of Count Lucarda, at his estate in the Carpathian uplands.

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