Animal Ethics
AUGUST 21, 2009
For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post. Would they have the right to treat you as you treat animals you breed, keep, and kill for food? Tags: Moral Vegetarianism. KBJ: The following three propositions are inconsistent: 1.
Animal Ethics
JULY 7, 2009
For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post. So, even if animals are killed painlessly and raised for food in humane ways, it is wrong to kill them. Consequently, the killing of some animals for food, if done painlessly, is not morally objectionable.
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Animal Ethics
JANUARY 9, 2009
A third of a century ago, when the modern animal-liberation movement was in its infancy, Martin published an essay entitled “A Critique of Moral Vegetarianism,” Reason Papers (fall 1976): 13-43. You will, therefore, agree with Martin about moral vegetarianism but not about Christianity. Another reason is moral. One is health.
Animal Ethics
JANUARY 21, 2009
For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post. SOME PROBLEMS OF MORAL VEGETARIANISM With respect to traditional moral vegetarianism some problems immediately come to the fore. What animals is it morally wrong to eat? But what is the extent of the universal moral principle?
Animal Ethics
NOVEMBER 9, 2009
For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post. It is argued that the killing and eating of meat indirectly tends to brutalize people. People who do not eat meat for moral reasons tend to be less brutal than people who do eat meat. The case of Hitler need not count against (2).
Animal Ethics
MARCH 8, 2009
For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post. For example, if one could pick up shed animal legs in a pasture in which animals roam freely among their own kind, there might be no moral objection to eating the legs. They suggest that any simple moral vegetarianism is impossible.
Animal Person
AUGUST 5, 2009
The next argument is usually something along the lines of: But animals in the wild might starve to death, and get injured, maimed or killed by predators! Finally, people who object to our moral stance jump species and say we should object to the lion killing the gazelle. Tags: Ethics Language. Yes, that's true.
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