who is due moral consideration?
The main question this week is overarching: who is due moral consideration?
Discuss the implications of moral consideration on some of the following practices involving nonhuman animals: meat-eating habits, pet ownership, the use of nonhuman animals in experimentations, and keeping animals in zoos.
- In what ways, if any, do any of the above actions represent incompatible, even contradictory, moral values?
- Do humans have a moral obligation to modify our lifestyle in order to recognize the moral status of nonhuman others?
- Do you believe any of the nonhuman animals mentioned above (pets, farmed animals, zoo animals, etc.) would qualify as moral subjects, and perhaps even moral agents?
- Which perspective (utilitarian, social contract, Kantian, etc.) discussed in Chapter 15 is most consistent with your outlook on animals?
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