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"[T]he Lord does not require of them [animals] repentance from sin, for they do not sin. It requires intelligence and a knowledge of right and wrong, in order for a man to sin. While animals prey on each other there is no violation of conscience, for they have not the gift of conscience. There is no moral obligation for a lion or a bear, or any other carnivorous animal to kill and prey on other animals, for the Lord did not give to them the light of truth . . . There is no moral question troubling them. They have no moral sense, of understanding of justice, right, or wrong."

Church Leaders
Joseph Fielding Smith
Presidents of the Church | Man: His Origin and Destiny (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1954), 205.
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