Meaning of zoophile | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Dated spelling of zoophile.
2. A person sexually attracted to non-human animals.
3. A person who in their ethical propositions puts animals on a level with humans.
4. A furry (member of the furry fandom)
   broadly, derogatory, nonstandard

Equivalents

Examples

“It is not, after all, the 'anti-speciesist', the 'animal liberationist', the radical zoophile who 'attributes a mystical persona' to animals. We simply say⟳ that if it is wrong to cause avoidable distress then it is wrong to torture, enslave and kill⟳ creatures not of our species for our own⟳, frequently trivial, profit.”

“[…] the process⟳ theist may not regard the killing of non-human animals for food or other reasons as generally acceptable. Call⟳ the process⟳ thinker who regards the killing of non-human animals for food as (usually) morally wrong a zoophile. Even if the zoophile regards human beings as more capable of experience⟳ and insight than another animals, and as therefore more valuable than other animals, she may regard non-human animals as moral patients. She may well not regard predatory animals as full moral agents; she will then have⟳ no reason⟳ to see⟳ their killing of other animals for food as itself morally wrong, because predators are not themselves subject to moral assessments. But she may still find⟳ it difficult to square God's encouragement of predation with an attractive account of divine goodness. […] A moral theory may, of course, incorporate both consequentialist and non-consequentialist elements: the process⟳ thinker is not required to choose⟳ definitively between the two. However, to the extent that the process⟳ thinker who is also a zoophile reasons as a consequentialist about non-human animals and their interests, whether or not she does so about humans and their interests, she will face⟳ the problem that consequentialism appears problematic as a moral theory, and that the goodness of a God who acts as a consequentialist with respect⟳ to animals is not perhaps overly attractive morally.”

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