May 6, 2005

Dogs and Morality; The Dark Side of Title IX

Human morality generally characterizes those societies and cultures in which moral principles are formulated, but the morality in question always deals with humans. Good and evil are always embodied in human relations. In the past few decades, however, the concept of moral behavior has been extended to matters that are linked to humans more remotely. Nowadays we consider it evil or immoral to exterminate an animal or plant species, or to irresponsibly damage the environment or those few