PHIL 4 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Antimicrobial Resistance
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Premise 4: the tastiness of meat is not good enough reason to justify the terrible suffering of animals associated with factory farming, conclusion: we should not eat the meat products of this business. We should be vegetarians: the argument says nothing about animals raised on old-fashioned family farms or in hunter-gatherer societies. It address only the situation of people like us in modern industrial societies : according to rachels the argument doesnt depend on any controversial claims about. Religiously tinged notions of the value of life: human health, animal rights, philosophical theories of the nature of morality . It"s not a utilitarian argument: premise 1, this doesn"t hold that it"s always wrong to cause pain, dentist is for a good reason, plus consent, thinks this is intuitively obvious, similar to singer"s argument for addressing absolute poverty.
