L30 Phil 235F Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Intensive Animal Farming, Principle Of Double Effect, Anarchism In Russia
24 Feb 2019
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Puppies, pigs, and people: eating meat and marginal cases by alastair norcross. What fred does to the puppies in his basement is seriously wrong. Purchasing factory farmed meat is morally analogous to what fred has done to the puppies in his basement. Therefore, purchasing factory farmed meat is also seriously wrong. Two ways to respond to arguments by analogy: Deny the analogy (find a morally relevant difference) Indirect harm: fred did the torturing, whereas we don"t. Norcross: we can alter the fred story so that he paid someone else to harm them. Knowledge: fred knows that the puppies are harmed, whereas many of us are unaware of animal suffering in factory farms. Causal impotence: if i refrain from eating meat, it won"t make a difference. It"s false that it won"t make a difference. Tragedy of the commons mentality - even if the chance of your making a difference is slim, the harm that is risked is enormous.
