Tag: USLOs
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Discuss the implications of meat-eating nonhuman animals in relation to moral consideration.
Discuss the implications of moral consideration on some of the following practices involving nonhuman animals: meat-eating habits, pet ownership, the use of nonhuman animals in experimentations, and keeping animals in zoos. In what ways, if any, do any of the above actions represent incompatible, even contradictory, moral values? Do humans have a moral obligation to…
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Discuss the implications of having moral obligations toward animals.
Is it morally permissible to raise and kill animals to eat them in our society, where nutritious alternatives to animal foods are readily available? If we were somewhere where there were inadequate non-animal foods, would that make a difference to the morality of using animals for food? Which ethical theory (utilitarian, social contract, Kantian, etc.)…
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Discuss the implications of moral consideration on some of the following practices involving nonhuman animals: meat-eating habits, pet ownership, the use of nonhuman animals in experimentations, and keeping animals in zoos.
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