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Tradition - Philosophy - Religion Decent Conduct toward Animals:
a Traditional Approach Stephen R. L. CLARK Mainstream moral
philosophers, in the secular and Protestant as well as the
Catholic traditions, have chosen to emphasise reason. Reason is
what brings us closest to Reality. Reason demands consistency of
belief and practice. Reason identifies the only final goals as
those that anyone (or anyone rational) would at once
acknowledge. The Honour ethic, by contrast, acknowledges goals
and rules peculiar to particular genders, classes, ranks and
nations. Rational ethicists will usually acknowledge that pain
is itself an evil, whether in itself or as a sign of bodily
collapse, but may disregard the claims of individuals in the
name of some imagined future. Honour e