The Peak in Darien: An Octave of Essays
The Peak in Darien: An Octave of Essays
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" 132 ZOOPHILY.
sacrum^ are reasons insufficient for abandoning a sensitive being to the caprice of a tormentor. . . .
The question is not, Can they reason? or Can they speak? but, Can they suflFer ? " Long before Bentham, a greater mind, travelling along a nobler road of philosophy, laid down the canon which resolves the whole question. Bishop Butler affirmed that it was on the simple fact of a creature being sentient — i.e., capable of pain and pleasure — that rests our responsibility to save... it pain and give it pleasure. There is no evading this obligation, then, as regards the lower animals, by the plea that they are not moral beings. It is our morality, not theirs^ which is in question. There are special considerations which in different cases may modify our obligation, but it is on such special reasons, not on the universal non-moral nature of the brutes (as the old divines taught), that our exon- eration must be founded ; and the onus lies on us to show cause for each of them.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
" 132 ZOOPHILY.
sacrum^ are reasons insufficient for abandoning a sensitive being to the caprice of a tormentor. . . .
The question is not, Can they reason? or Can they speak? but, Can they suflFer ? " Long before Bentham, a greater mind, travelling along a nobler road of philosophy, laid down the canon which resolves the whole question. Bishop Butler affirmed that it was on the simple fact of a creature being sentient — i.e., capable of pain and pleasure — that rests our responsibility to save... it pain and give it pleasure. There is no evading this obligation, then, as regards the lower animals, by the plea that they are not moral beings. It is our morality, not theirs^ which is in question. There are special considerations which in different cases may modify our obligation, but it is on such special reasons, not on the universal non-moral nature of the brutes (as the old divines taught), that our exon- eration must be founded ; and the onus lies on us to show cause for each of them.
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