11:067:300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Animal Science, Consequentialism, Management System
17 May 2016
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5 animal welfare and animal rights: animal well-being. Social science: practices based on culture are social choices that change over time: decision-making. Consequentialism: cost-benefit analysis: qualities shared between animals and humans. The capacity to relate to others and to show concern for others. We grant ourselves rights, so too should animals be similarly rewarded. Right: a claim that one party may exercise against another within a community of moral agents; human invention developed to maintain harmony and reduce conflict in complex social, political, economic, and legal interactions: moral agents. Beings capable of making moral judgments and comprehending moral duty. People who do not meet requirements can lose their rights. Animals can neither claim rights nor accept the responsibility of having them. Animals don"t need to have rights in order to be treated well, because we have morals: animal welfare or well-being. Mental: they hide feelings because in the wild, predators go after the weak.
