Sunday, May 17, 2015

Dodging ethics

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The men who came up with the idea of imprisoning hens in cages, set a trend.  As pioneers of the ultimate pragmatism, they invented and then developed the caging system.  Many of them went on to build other prisons, for other animals.  The ‘factory farm’ came into being.  Perhaps the idea came from a ‘death-camp’ mentality, giving a clue to the main weakness of humans - our ability to turn a blind eye for the sake of our own convenience, and to be able to dodge our ethics when it suited us.

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