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What's Really Wrong With Bestiality

Justin E. H. Smith

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Books and articles discussed in this essay:

John Corvino, "Homosexuality and the
PIB Argument," Ethics 115 (2005): 501-34

Cora Diamond, "Eating Animals and Eating People," Philosophy 53 (1978): 465-79.

Lawrence Krader, Social Organization of the Mongol-Turkic Pastoral Nomads (The Hague: Mouton, 1963).

What's Really Wrong With Bestiality

Justin E. H. Smith

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Books and articles discussed in this essay:

John Corvino, "Homosexuality and the
PIB Argument," Ethics 115 (2005): 501-34

Cora Diamond, "Eating Animals and Eating People," Philosophy 53 (1978): 465-79.

Lawrence Krader, Social Organization of the Mongol-Turkic Pastoral Nomads (The Hague: Mouton, 1963).

When he was diagnosed with kidney cancer last year, Dave deBronkart needed an easy way to keep his far-flung friends and family updated. So did the president of the American Medical Association when he fell ill months ago. And so did the mother of a soldier wounded in Iraq who later suffered brain damage.

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