moral disengagement theory
…how people excuse their contributions to [[climate change]] and violating [[animal rights]]. ## Mechanisms - **Moral justification**: when we give immoral behavior a higher…
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The cruelty of Cuteness
Jessica Pierce in Aeon on how the human desire for ever-cuter dogs leads to the breeding of dogs with stunted growth, greater health problems, and diminished quality of life.
Further Reading
- Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for Our Treatment of Animals by Peter Singer is a classic on the subject in Western philosophy
- https://lux-magazine.com/article/our-animals-ourselves/
- 1 in 4 animals raised on factory farms goes to waste, their life of considerable suffering for nothing