Is Having Pets Morally Permissible?

Toit, Jessica du

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“…The aspect of freedom makes it clear that the demands by at least radical animal right activists go beyond a change of our diet; they also include the abolishment of keeping pets. In her analysis of the moral justification for keeping pets, Du Toit (2016) dismissed the “freedom objection”; the concept of liberty is strongly intertwined with the concept of one individual “possessing” another, which, as Francione (2020) noted, was the core objection to keeping pets.…”

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Banning markets for moral reasons: is the abolition of slavery a role model for the future of animal production?

Mann

2022

IJSE

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PurposeThe market for slaves is one of the few cases where trade is banned for moral reasons in every country. While animal activists often link animal production to slavery, they fail to answer the question about why animal production persists in every country, while slavery is banned everywhere.Design/methodology/approachThe purpose of this paper is to show both parallels and differences between slavery and animal production, both from a historic and systematic perspective.FindingsIt can be shown that the claim about the many philosophical parallels between slavery and animal production is justified, but that the political economy between the cases differs strongly, particularly regarding the distribution of benefits.Practical implicationsThe paper argues that the food industry will play a decisive role in the future of animal production.Social implicationsThe loss of jobs would certainly be an issue if animal production was banned, whereas the labor market effects of abolition were more complex.Originality/valueWhile the comparison is not new, this is the first holistic evaluation of it.

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Banning markets for moral reasons: is the abolition of slavery a role model for the future of animal production?

Mann

2022

IJSE

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“…I remain silent on whether it’s permissible to own animals as pets in the real world. For a discussion of these ideas see, e.g., Francione and Charlton ( 2016 ) and du Toit ( 2016 ). If it turned out to be impermissible, then owning animals would constitute abuse, and real-world remedies suggested here would apply.…”

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Sims and Vulnerability: On the Ethics of Creating Emulated Minds

Chomanski

2022

Sci Eng Ethics

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It might become possible to build artificial minds with the capacity for experience. This raises a plethora of ethical issues, explored, among others, in the context of whole brain emulations (WBE). In this paper, I will take up the problem of vulnerability – given, for various reasons, less attention in the literature – that the conscious emulations will likely exhibit. Specifically, I will examine the role that vulnerability plays in generating ethical issues that may arise when dealing with WBEs. I will argue that concerns about vulnerability are more matters of institutional design than individual ethics, both when it comes to creating humanlike brain emulations, and when animal-like emulations are concerned. Consequently, the article contains reflection on some institutional measures that can be taken to protect the sims' interests. It concludes that an institutional framework more likely to succeed in this task is competitive and poly-centric, rather than monopolistic and centralized.

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Mills¹

2017

Animals on Television

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Is Having Pets Morally Permissible?

Cited by 4 publications

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Banning markets for moral reasons: is the abolition of slavery a role model for the future of animal production?

Banning markets for moral reasons: is the abolition of slavery a role model for the future of animal production?

Sims and Vulnerability: On the Ethics of Creating Emulated Minds

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