91. Animal Ethics: Peter Singer on the Expanding Circle
capacity to feel pleasure or pain should be included; we can improve their welfare by increasing their pleasures and diminishing their pains.The expansion of the moral circle should therefore be pushed out until it includes most animals. (I say
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92. Animal Ethics
confined. If they're killed painlessly and eaten, what's wrong with that? They're going to die anyway, perhaps violently.• Suppose animals have moral rights. Does anything follow about whether they do, or should, have legal rights? If
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93. Animal Ethics
confined. If they're killed painlessly and eaten, what's wrong with that? They're going to die anyway, perhaps violently.• Suppose animals have moral rights. Does anything follow about whether they do, or should, have legal rights? If
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94. Animal Ethics
to do with sparing animals pain, suffering, deprivation, confinement, and death. I'm not saying the women in question were coerced into participating, but aren't they being objectified—aren't their bodies being used—to make a point,
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95. Animal Ethics: July 2011
homes, roosters experience pain and fear, and they don’t want to die. Many people don’t realize that roosters are confined in tiny cages for most of their lives and killed for their feathers.
There are plenty of ways to get a killer
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96. Animal Ethics: February 2011
infliction of severe pain for the purpose of (1) punishing an offender, (2) securing a confession from a criminal suspect, (3) eliciting information, or (4) gratifying the sadistic desires of the torturer. Meat production may be cruel or
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97. Animal Ethics: October 2008
men are entitled to cause pain to animals. But not so far as seriously to limit man's domination of the world.(John Passmore , "The Treatment of Animals," Journal of the History of Ideas 36 [April-June 1975]: 195-218, at 217-8
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98. Animal Ethics: August 2009
given that we cause them no pain, preserve the ecological balance, and so on, and that it is wrong for the aliens to kill and eat us, even though they kill us painlessly and so on. KBJ: The following three propositions are inconsistent: 1.
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99. Animal Ethics: February 2010
in intensity that the pains of animals are overridden by the pleasures experienced by human beings. That the argument may appear cynical is no concern of the utilitarian, who is forced by his moral theory to admit the relevance of even the
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100. Animal Ethics: July 2008
are non-self-conscious. Then painlessly killing a pig while replacing it with another, equally happy pig is not wrong. Suppose humans are self-conscious. Then painlessly killing a human (specifically: one who desires to continue living) while
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