PHLB05H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Consequentialism
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Phlb05 du toit pet ownership. Definition of pets: kept around or near the house; restricted in where they inhabit (confined in their movements) Animal rights activism: the treatment of pets has been the issue of focus. Two central questions determine the moral question: benefits/harms to pet, moral wrongs" to pets. Two issues are put aside: non-standard pets (chimpanzees or tigers, maltreatment of pets. Du toit suggests an approach for predicting animal desires: sentient animals that move around have desires to move around. Moving around freely improve animal fitness" desire to move around freely. Pets have this desire to frustrated (desire to move around freely is frustrated) Pets have the desire to move about freely. Pets (by definition) have their freedom restricted. Pets have their desire to move about freely frustrated. Associated harms: eating, sleeping, socializing (living with a pack, engaging freely with other animals; impairs their. P1: pets have their desires to move about freely frustrated.
