The indifference, callousness, and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering towards animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of human spirit.
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Ashley Montagu was American american anthropologist. Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu was a British-American anthropologist who popularized the study of topics such as race and gender and their relation to politics and development. He was the rapporteur, in 1950, for the UNESCO "statement on race". Read more on Wikipedia →
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- Philosophy — Deep thoughts on existence, knowledge, and the nature of reality