2 Quotes by Jenny Brown

  • Author Jenny Brown
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    Must animals be intelligent for humans to have compassion and empathy toward them? To be spared misery? We don’t make those distinctions for humans in the United States; there’s no IQ qualifier in the Constitution. Abusers can’t get off the hook with, “But, Officer, he’s just dumb.

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Must animals be intelligent for humans to have compassion and empathy toward them? To be spared misery? We don’t make those distinctions for humans in the United States; there’s no IQ qualifier in the Constitution. Abusers can’t get off the hook with, “But, Officer, he’s just dumb.

-Jenny Brown

  • Author Jenny Brown
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    As the nineteenth-century philosopher and animal rights activist Jeremy Bentham said, “The question is not, can they reason? Nor, can they talk? But, can they suffer?

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As the nineteenth-century philosopher and animal rights activist Jeremy Bentham said, “The question is not, can they reason? Nor, can they talk? But, can they suffer?

-Jenny Brown

 

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