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Non-Human Animals Can Act Ethically: A Response to Richard Polt | Piper Hoffman
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Rock the Boat: Law, Society, and Social Justice. How Animals Are Like Us. Non-Human Animals Can Act Ethically: A Response to Richard Polt. Proving that humans are somehow better than non-human animals is a priority for some, including philosophy professor Richard Polt. Writing in The New York Times. Polt shows his hand with his choice of the word beast to describe other animals. Synonyms. Saving humans, and on at least one occasion saving whales. But we needn’t look to the most intelligent species or...