PHLB02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Environmental Ethics, Consequentialism, Ecological Stability
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Miniride: life boat situation his view is that death harms us because once you die you don"t experience anything, it forecloses opportunity we would"ve had in the future to satisfy our interests. Not because death is painful or something like that. So if the human"s life is less than the animals then you throw the human out. Worse off: only way to save many instead of view is that one person in the group of many who is worse of then the individual. One number that is greater than each other. What would singer say about the worse off view: he"s a utilitarian. So he would choose to save the more than the few. Peter singer: environmental values: both regan and him do agree with extending our morals to animals, holmes watson: ecological stability, killing goats to save plants, Taking metaphors literally: many arguments for saving trees are people using these terms metamorphically.
