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Week 4 Discussion Applied Ethics

Week 4 Discussion Applied Ethics

Q Week 4 – Discussion The main question this week is overarching: who is due 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 modify our lifestyle in order to recognize the moral status of nonhuman others? Do you believe any of the nonhuman animals mentioned above (pets, farmed animals, zoo animals, etc.) would qualify as moral subjects, and perhaps even moral agents?• Which perspective (utilitarian, social contract, Kantian, etc.) discussed in Chapter 15 is most consistent with your outlook on animals?

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Yes, I do agree that the actions done by us human like meat eating, pet ownership, use of animals for experimentations and keeping animals in zoos are incompatible and also contradictory to the moral value that we preach. When we are killing animal to consume its meat, we are taking from it, it’s right to live and we definitely doing it against their will. If everyone has the right to live freely then why do we try to own pets? Why do we try to domesticate them? Animals are also living being, they are also breathing then why are we using them for experimentation? Are we really taking advantage of them because they cannot speak out for themselves? Or are we simply dominating them as we are superior species?