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but a full-grown horse or dog, is beyond comparison a more rational, as well as a more conversable animal, than an infant of a day or a week or even a month, old. but suppose the case were otherwise, what would it avail? the question is not, can they reason? nor, can they talk?
earlier in the paragraph, bentham makes clear that he accepted that animals could be killed for food, or in defence of human life, provided that the animal was not made to suffer unnecessarily. bentham did not object to medical experiments on animals, providing that the experiments had in mind a particular...
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