PP223 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Intensive Animal Farming, Universalizability, Speciesism
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Peter singer, animal liberation: argument: ethical treatment towards animals based on utilitarianism principle, bad behaviour of humans towards animals (prohibited, different types of equality. Fa(cid:272)tual e(cid:395)ualit(cid:455): hu(cid:373)a(cid:374)s e(cid:454)ist (cid:449)ithi(cid:374) a (cid:396)a(cid:374)ge of (cid:373)o(cid:271)ilit(cid:455)"s (pain) Argument for killing: the widespread practice of meat-eating requires killing sentient being, killing sentient beings is wrong, therefore, the widespread practice of meat- eating is wrong. The argument from suffering: the widespread practice of meat-eating causes suffering. The argument from paternalism: there is strong evidence that meat-eating is not conductivities to the health of a population, it is the utilitarian duty of a government to minimize harm, therefore, meat eating ought to be forbidden. Group questions: while the utilitarian justification of the treatment of animals based on pleasure and pain makes initial sense, we have looked at several objections to this approach, 1. Is the utilitarian approach adequate or does it need to be augmented with a consideration of moral obligations: 2.
