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Why? 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?
by ksdale 6y ago
Why? 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.