This article argues that killing animals for food represents an extreme case within Christian moral thinking comparable to Karl Barth's Grenzfall argument against such violent acts as suicide, abortion, killing in self-defense, capital punishment, and war. This position is in contrast to the view...
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From this perspective Aristotle defended slavery—because he considered barbarians less rational than Greeks and by nature suited to be “living tools”—and the killing of nonhuman animals for food and clothing. From this perspective also came a view of human nature and an ethical theory derived ...
groups of stakeholders concerned by the field of AI ethics is expanding, with speculation about whether it extends even to the machines themselves, there is a group of sentient beings who are also affected by AI, but are rarely mentioned within the field of AI ethics—the nonhuman animals. Th...
The delay was the product of more than intelligence gaps; concerns about the possibility of killing civilians were also said to be paramount, and at aPentagon briefingLt General Kenneth McKenzieconceded that while ‘we could have gone to other places and done other things’ the three selected ...
when humanity ‘loves itself’, this does not mean that it does so by also respecting nonhumans. This is not to imply that killing animals (especially for food) is wrong. This does not follow from ecocentrism, for which it is the ‘good of the environmental system’ that is the axial ...
Differences also arise concerning whose well-being is properly within the scope of ethical consideration, with some ethicists moving beyond assessing consequences for humans and including those for animals or the earth. In each case, however, the worth of the act or a social policy lies in the ...
Fourth Dish: Food Justice, Race, and Diet-Related Disease (and a Side of Justice for Farmworkers!) So far, we have focused on ethical issues raised by our food system's impact on non-human animals. In this Dish, we turn our attention to the ways in which the food system affects huma...
I address these questions by using focus groups and in-depth interviews to analyze five potentially upsetting topics: dietary warnings about meat consumption, meat safety recalls, eating meat directly from the skull of the animal, the morality of killing animals for food, and the “pink slime” ...
For me the core issue that determines my behaviour about animals for food is motivation, and the reason for the killing.I would never knowingly harm an animal – including a fly or an ant or a spider – if I didn’t feel there was a practical imperative for doing so. Killing cockroaches...