PHIL 150B1 Chapter 15: PHIL 150B1 - People or Penguins (Unit 3, Week 9)
16 Mar 2018
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People or penguins: the case for optimal pollution by william f. baxter. Every human being should be regarded as an end rather than as a means to be used for them betterment of another. Both the incentive and the opportunity to improve his share of satisfactions should be preserved to every individual. His criteria is oriented towards people, not penguins. Ddt in food production is causing damage to the penguin population. Humans are surrogates for plant and animal life . Questions of ought are unique to the human mind and world they are meaningless as applied to a nonhuman situation . We should respect the balance of nature or preserve the environment . He rejects that idea that there is right or morally correct state of nature to which we should return .
