{"id":639,"date":"2004-07-12T00:00:50","date_gmt":"2004-07-11T23:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/?p=639"},"modified":"2022-06-08T19:41:44","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T19:41:44","slug":"639","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/?p=639","title":{"rendered":"Roger Scruton"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>If animals are conscious, then they feel things\u2014for example, pain, fear and hunger\u2014which is intrinsically bad to feel. To inflict deliberately such experiences on an animal for no reason is either to treat the animal as a thing or else in some way to relish its suffering. And surely both those attitudes are immoral.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Roger Scruton, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1900512815\/famouspeoplewith\">Animal Rights and Wrongs<\/a><\/em>, 2nd ed., London, 1998, p. 21<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If animals are conscious, then they feel things\u2014for example, pain, fear and hunger\u2014which is intrinsically bad to feel. To inflict deliberately such experiences on an animal for no reason is either to treat the animal as a thing or else in some way to relish its suffering. And surely both those attitudes are immoral. Roger [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[372],"tags":[801,612],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4117,"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions\/4117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}