It has been long thought of as simply a way to get over the feelings of guilt from eating animals, but the truth of the matter is much more complex. ... In Buddhism for example, humans are not supposed to eat any animal products as an exercise of spiritual respect (Singer, 1995). ... Thus the popularly accepted reason for the choice of vegetarian eating habits, the feeling of doing something wrong by killing animals for food (Wilson, 2004). Thus, people begin to feel a conscience, a sense of obligation towards saving animal lives, hence the movement away from animal products (Singer, 1995). ....

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The city exists by nature; a human being is by nature a political animal: The genus of a city is community, koinania; it is to be distinguished from such other communities as the husband-wife community, the master-slave community, the household, and the village or clan. ... While recognizing that human beings have not always lived in cities, and that in this sense they are products of human ingenuity (1253a31), Aristotle at the same time claims that the city exists by nature, and that a human being is by nature a political animal (1253a2-3). ... He means that the capacities of the city subsume...

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Swift uses the creature of the "Yahoo" from the land of the "Houyhnhms", to question animal instinct within human nature, asking why people kill and commit acts of violence. ... "Upon the whole, the behaviour of these animals was so orderly and rational, so acute and judicious, that I last concluded that they must be magicians" (Page 249, Paragraph 2) In this case, "Houyhnhms" (horses) are completely rational, resulting in complete confusion for Gulliver. ... "My horror and astonishment are not to be described, when I observed in this abominable animal a human figure: the face of it indeed ...

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Back in the mid 1800's, slavery was in full effect in the areas of the South. Slavery consisted of individuals that worked for so called slave masters who treated them not as human beings but as their personal property. Some say that the slaves basically were treated like animals. The slaves would...

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