[conservativephilosopher-announce] New post at The Conservative Philosopher

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Hello,
	There is a new post on The Conservative Philosopher.  You can read it at:

http://www.conservativephilosopher.com/posts/1118176724.shtml

It begins:

	Longtime reader Khursh Mian Acevedo sent a link to
	a radio interview with animal-rights advocate
	Matthew Scully, who happens (like me) to be a
	conservative. See here. Thinking that animals
	matter, morally, is not a liberal cause. How it
	came to be seen as a liberal cause puzzles me. Was
	the abolition of slavery a liberal cause? Must one
	be a liberal to think that making sentient beings
	suffer for trivial reasons is wrong? And by the
	way, not all liberals have been proponents of
	animal rights. Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), one of
	history's great liberals, was decidedly not a
	proponent...