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p.263
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6005
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Animals are dangerous and nourishing, and can't form contracts of justice
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Full Idea:
Hermarchus said that animal killing is justified by considerations of human safety and nourishment and by animals' inability to form contractual relations of justice with us.
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From:
report of Hermarchus (fragments/reports [c.270 BCE]) by David A. Sedley - Hermarchus
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A reaction:
Could the last argument be used to justify torturing animals? Or could we eat a human who was too brain-damaged to form contracts?
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