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HUMANE MYTH
GLOSSARY:
Conscientious objection



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 HUMANE MYTH GLOSSARY
Abolition
Animal advocacy
Animal husbandry
Animal protection
Animal rights
Animal welfare
Animal welfare industrial complex
Animal-using industries
Co-option
Commodification
Conflict of Interest
Conscience
Conscientious objection
Critical thinking
Cruelty-free
Disillusionment
Doctrine of necessary evil
Happy Meat
Hogwashing
Humane myth
Humane slaughter
Neocarnism
Non-participation and Non-cooperation
Non-violent social change
Open Rescue
Path of Conscience
Plant-based diet
Privilege of domination
Speciesism
Suffering
Sustainable
Utilitarianism
Values-based activism
Vegan
 






Conscientious objection

The act of refusing to participate in a certain type of activity for reasons of conscience. The most common example is of those people who refuse to fight in a war either because they disagree with the reasons for the war or because they feel that war itself is morally wrong. Some people who refuse to take part in the use and killing of animals, or to use the products of such activity, consider this an act of conscientious objection. Conscientious objection is also associated with the tradition of civil disobedience, in which, as a form of nonviolent protest, a person who believes generally in following the laws of the state is willing to openly break certain laws that violate basic moral values or principles of conscience.