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Originally Posted by Cicero
Magic 8 ball- Is PETA ever going to be ethical?
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PETA uses "Ethical" in two different ways. When referring to the actions of medical researchers, meat industry, and pet owners, they use a Natural Law standard which applies value to all beings capable of sentience, and no beneficial outcome can triumph that inherent value.
For their own actions, however, they use the a utilitarian standard; the ends justify the means, and a good enough ends justifies any means.
They have this double standard in common with all fundamentalists and ideologues.