ANSC 1210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Behaviorism, Dust Bathing, Anthropomorphism
23 Feb 2016
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To uphold intellectual integrity we must be able to justify our moral views. Agent-centred view : similar to virtuism we should care for animals because it improves humanity. Species-integrity view is difficult to justify because a species cannot experience welfare, it is a single animal experience and protecting a species may not improve the welfare of each animal. Animal rights pov major hypocrisy lab rats & pest rodents have different treatment. Must use combination of philosophies because there is no perfect singular ideology. Rachels suggested we have to consider the past as well, not just the end result ie. past promises. First line of defense for utilitarian pov is that most hypothetical issues with it are unrealistic. So what is our opinion on welfare important? (ie. greeks believed they were superior does it matter?) Rule utilitarianism sets rules for special cases (no name designation for these ie not.
