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Animal Ethics in Context (Hardcover)
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Animal Ethics in Context (Hardcover)
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It is widely agreed that because animals feel pain we should not
make them suffer gratuitously. Some ethical theories go even
further: because of the capacities that they possess, animals have
the right not to be harmed or killed. These views concern what not
to do to animals, but we also face questions about when we should,
and should not, assist animals that are hungry or distressed.
Should we feed a starving stray kitten? And if so, does this commit
us, if we are to be consistent, to feeding wild animals during a
hard winter? In this controversial book, Clare Palmer advances a
theory that claims, with respect to assisting animals, that what is
owed to one is not necessarily owed to all, even if animals share
similar psychological capacities. Context, history, and relation
can be critical ethical factors. If animals live independently in
the wild, their fate is not any of our moral business. Yet if
humans create dependent animals, or destroy their habitats, we may
have a responsibility to assist them. Such arguments are familiar
in human cases-we think that parents have special obligations to
their children, for example, or that some groups owe reparations to
others. Palmer develops such relational concerns in the context of
wild animals, domesticated animals, and urban scavengers, arguing
that different contexts can create different moral relationships.
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