PHIL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Animal Rights Movement, Tom Regan, Intensive Animal Farming
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Total abolition of the use of animals in science. Total elimination of commercial and sport hunting and trapping. Factory farming is wrong, but traditional homestead is okay. Testing cosmetics on animals is wrong, but medicine is okay. Eating/killing young animals is wrong, but adults are okay. Is the system that allows us to view animals as our resources (food, testing, sport, money) Treating them more humanely in the process doesn"t solve the actual problem. We have no direct duties to animals, but rather indirect duties. Indirect duty: duties that we have to animals are rather duties we have to people i. e. can"t violate a person"s property. Both human and animal feels pain, but only the human pain matters matters. Morality consists of a set of rules that individuals voluntarily agree to abide by, but animals cannot consent so they aren"t included in the moral community. Children and mentally infirmed people are included because people care about them.
