RE: Declawing Cats
July 28, 2019 at 11:13 pm
(This post was last modified: July 28, 2019 at 11:14 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(July 28, 2019 at 11:07 pm)Shell B Wrote:(July 28, 2019 at 10:18 pm)wyzas Wrote: Sorry, even though I don't like declawing I'm not going to take a position. We do a lot worse to many many animals. I'm not going to be that hypocrite.
It's not either or. Every step toward being better as people is surely good, right?
Except in this case “being better” is mainly a cosmetic thing, and it’s value and cost is evaluated very much based on strongly held personal and not universally shared preferences, and not on persuasive argument of what generally acknowledged good it can bring.