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Single Idea 21024
[filed under theme 25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 6. Animal Rights
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Full Idea
The painless killing of an animal of a species that does not make plans extending into the future may not be a harm: this depends on how we think about the harm of death.
Gist of Idea
It may be no harm to kill an animal which cannot plan for its future
Source
Martha Nussbaum (Creating Capabilities [2011], 8)
Book Ref
Nussbaum,Martha C.: 'Creating Capabilities' [Belknap Harvard 2013], p.162
A Reaction
Very old human beings may have no plans for the future. I, on the other hand, have got lots and lots of plans. Definitely. No one can specify the harm of death. How can it be distinguished from the harm of not being born?
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Avoid the animals you are going to eat, as it is hard once you have got to know them
[Mengzi (Mencius)]
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6005
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Animals are dangerous and nourishing, and can't form contracts of justice
[Hermarchus, by Sedley]
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20857
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Justice is irrelevant to animals, because they are too unlike us
[Chrysippus, by Diog. Laertius]
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1779
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We don't have obligations to animals as they aren't like us
[Chrysippus, by Diog. Laertius]
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1868
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The world was made as much for animals as for man
[Celsus]
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17215
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Animals feel, but that doesn't mean we can't use them for our pleasure and profit
[Spinoza]
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19753
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Both men and animals are sentient, which should give the latter the right not to be mistreated
[Rousseau]
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3730
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Non-rational beings only have a relative value, as means rather than as ends
[Kant]
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21423
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Men can only have duties to those who qualify as persons
[Kant]
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21424
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Cruelty to animals is bad because it dulls our empathy for pain in humans
[Kant]
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20280
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Large mature animals are more rational than babies. But all that really matters is - can they suffer?
[Bentham]
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21376
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Philosophy treats animals as exploitable things, ignoring the significance of their lives
[Schopenhauer]
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14882
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Protest against vivisection - living things should not become objects of scientific investigation
[Nietzsche]
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5915
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Rights can be justly claimed, so animals have no rights, as they cannot claim any
[Ross]
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4133
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Speciesism isn't like racism, because the former implies a viewpoint which belongs to no one
[Williams,B]
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20283
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Killing a chimp is worse than killing a human too defective to be a person
[Singer]
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21022
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The Capabilities Approach sees animals as agents, not just as having feelings
[Nussbaum]
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21023
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We should respect animals in the way that we respect the animal nature in humans
[Nussbaum]
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21024
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It may be no harm to kill an animal which cannot plan for its future
[Nussbaum]
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4295
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We favour our own animals over foreign ones because we see them as fellow citizens
[Scruton]
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4296
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Brutal animal sports are banned because they harm the personality of the watcher
[Scruton]
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4263
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Many of the stranger forms of life (e.g. worms) interest us only as a species, not as individuals
[Scruton]
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4268
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Animals command our sympathy and moral concern initially because of their intentionality
[Scruton]
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4276
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An animal has individuality if it is nameable, and advanced animals can respond to their name
[Scruton]
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4277
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I may avoid stepping on a spider or flower, but fellow-feeling makes me protect a rabbit
[Scruton]
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4278
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Lucky animals are eaten by large predators, the less lucky starve, and worst is death by small predators
[Scruton]
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4279
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We can easily remove the risk of suffering from an animal's life, but we shouldn't do it
[Scruton]
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4288
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Many breeds of animals have needs which our own ancestors planted in them
[Scruton]
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4289
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Sheep and cattle live comfortable lives, and die an enviably easy death
[Scruton]
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4291
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Letting your dog kill wild rats, and keeping rats for your dog to kill, are very different
[Scruton]
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4292
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Concern for one animal may harm the species, if the individual is part of a bigger problem
[Scruton]
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4293
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Introducing a natural means of controlling animal population may not be very compassionate
[Scruton]
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4294
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Animals are outside the community of rights, but we still have duties towards them
[Scruton]
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