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Let's start with the human-created suffering then we can discuss this question.
by bbrree66 6y ago
Let's start with the human-created suffering then we can discuss this question.
- ksdale 6y agoWhy? If we can create moral good by preventing the existence of animals, do we have a duty to prevent the existence of as many animals as possible?
- hprotagonist 6y agoThere was an ethics paper that won a student prize at oxford ..? or cambridge ..? that argued this exact position. I can't put my fingers on it right now though, it's really annoying. edit: http://www.jpe.ox.ac.uk/papers/consistent-vegetarianism-and-the-suffering-of-wild-animals/ http://www.jpe.ox.ac.uk/papers/consistent-vegetarianism-and-... Ethical consequentialist vegetarians believe that farmed animals have lives that are worse than non-existence. In this paper, I sketch out an argument that wild animals have worse lives than farmed animals, and that consistent vegetarians should therefore reduce the number of wild animals as a top priority.