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Was that a ""yes"" or a ""no""?
I assure you I am not playing games.  This is quite an important point.
SlimVirgin did raise the issue of tautology and I addressed it by saying that we need to write about welfare in the context of non-human animals.  You seem to think this is an impossible task, since we are human.  I reject this idea.  We can write about many non-human things.  Obviously, our ability to know about the welfare of a dog (for example) is limited by the fact that we are not dogs, but that does not change what animal welfare is.
  

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