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Aliens, Humans, Animals, & Luck: Animal Treatment & Human Morality

机译:外星人,人类,动物与运气:动物治疗与人类道德

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This paper proposes two thought experiments to demonstrate that our current treatment of animals is immoral. The first thought experiment involves aliens coming to earth and doing to us what we do to animals—eating us, confining us in farms and zoos, doing experiments on us, etc. Drawing on the latest scientific research on the abilities of animals, this thought experiment seeks to show that there are more relevant similarities between human beings and animals than most people realize, and that the differences between us and many other animals are not morally relevant. Moreover, this thought experiment attempts to appeal primarily to our sense of justice by tapping into our emotions for ourselves rather than to the usual approach which appeals to our emotions for animals. The second thought experiment is similar to the first, but more centrally emphasizes the idea of luck. It will, in part, take an approach recommended by Donald VanDeVeer to employ Rawl’s veil of ignorance to mask not only our natural and social starting places, but also our species—whether we are human or of another species. However, one serious objection made to VanDeVeer’s approach will be circumvented, namely, that it is difficult to imagine ourselves as an animal. Rather, we will imagine that evolution has made it so we are not the smartest and most powerful species on earth. This thought experiment invites us to ask ourselves that if there were only two species to consider and we were the less advanced of the two, would we still not expect to be treated with dignity and respect? Both analogies ultimately challenge us to ask the following question: What principles of justice would we choose to govern the interactions between species if we were not the most intelligent and powerful species on earth?
机译:本文提出了两个思想实验,以证明我们目前对动物的治疗是不道德的。第一个思想实验涉及到外星人来到地球并对我们做动物的事情,例如吃我们,将我们限制在农场和动物园中,对我们进行实验等。借鉴关于动物能力的最新科学研究,实验试图证明人与动物之间的相似性比大多数人意识到的更多,并且我们与许多其他动物之间的差异在道德上不相关。此外,这种思想实验试图通过利用我们自己的情感来吸引我们的正义感,而不是通过通常的方法来吸引我们对动物的情感。第二个思想实验与第一个相似,但更集中地强调了运气的想法。这将部分采用唐纳德·范德维尔(Donald VanDeVeer)推荐的方法,利用罗尔的无知之幕不仅掩盖我们的自然和社会起点,而且掩盖我们的物种-无论我们是人类还是其他物种。但是,可以避免对VanDeVeer的方法提出的一个严重异议,即很难将自己想象成动物。相反,我们将想象进化已经实现了,所以我们不是地球上最聪明,最强大的物种。这个思想实验使我们问自己:如果只考虑两个物种,而我们在这两个物种中不那么先进,我们是否仍不希望受到尊严和尊重的对待?这两个类比最终挑战我们提出以下问题:如果我们不是地球上最聪明和最强大的物种,我们将选择哪种正义原则来统治物种之间的相互作用?

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