Is Having Pets Morally Permissible?
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英国宠物兔福利状况——我们能做些什么, 宠物动物-住房，繁殖和福利, 宠物保障计划可以增加福利, 笔记
| The Case for Animal Rights (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983), I shall not engage with this issue here DeGrazia 2011 op. cit, p. 738. 11 See, for example, David Benatar, Better Never to Have Been The Harm of Coming into Existence (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006). 12 Alasdair Cochrane, Do animals have an interest in liberty Political Studies 57,3 (2009): 660–679. 13 Lori Gruen, The ethics of captivity. Online at http://onthehuman.org/2011/06/the-ethics-of-captivity/ (Accessed 30 October 2014). 14 Hilary Bok, Keeping pets in TL. Beauchamp & R.G. Frey (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Animal Ethics (New York Oxford University Press, 2011), p. 777; Varner op. cit, p. 456. 15 Juliet Clutton-Brock, Origins of the dog Domestication and early history in J. Serpell (ed) The Domestic Dog: Its Evolution, Behaviour, and Interactions with People (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 15. 16 Ibid See pp. 1–2 of Humane Society of the United States, An overview for caring for free-roaming cats. Online at www.humanesociety.org/assets/pdfs/pets/overview_caring_for_feral_cats.pdf (accessed 25 October 2012). 18 While it is true that the young of many wild animals also tend to fare very poorly, it is likely that domesticated animals would do even worse than these wild young do if they were left to fend for themselves or even if their parents reared them in the wild See Humane Society of the United States op. cit, pp. 1–2. 20 Ibid Maryann Mott, US facing feral dog crisis, National Geographic News, 21 August (2003). Online at http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/pf/34706631.html (accessed 1 October 2012); DeGrazia 2011 op. cit., p. 743; Varner op. cit, p. 456. 22 Of course, wild animals also tend to fare poorly without any human intervention. In fact, most die in infancy. Does this lead to the absurd implication that we should place as many wild animals as possible in zoos No, and this is for at least two reasons. Firstly, the fact that domesticated animals are so acutely dependent on Society for Applied Philosophy, Is Having Pets Morally Permissible? 341 human support to survive and live well has, at least to a very large extent, been brought about by deliberate human activities. Thus, humans are largely responsible for many of domesticated animals vulnerabilities. For this reason, as Clare Palmer argues in Animal Ethics in Context (New York Columbia University Press) and The moral relevance of the distinction between domesticated and wild animals in T.L. Beauchamp & R.G. Frey (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Animal Ethics (New York Oxford University Press, pp. 701–725, humans have special obligations to assist or care for these animals. She goes onto argue that since humans play no role in the bringing into existence of fully wild animals, and are not responsible for the various vulnerabilities of these animals, we do not have special obligations to assist or care for wild animals. Secondly, because wild animals are not domesticated, it is harmful to them to be in captivity. They may live longer in captivity, but there is much more to a good life than a longer) life Bok op. cit, p. 777. 24 Humans might, for example, have a legitimate interest in not having their pets eat from their plates or void their bladders or bowels in the house See, for example, South Africa’s Animals Protection Act, 1963 (Act No. 71 of 1962), online at http:// www.aacl.co.za/index.php?option =com_content&view=article&id=6&Itemid=9 (accessed 7 October and the United Kingdom’s Animal Welfare Act, 2006, online at http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/ 45/pdfs/ukpga_20060045_en.pdf (accessed 31 May 2014). 26 See, for example, Gary Francione, Animals, Property and the Law (Philadelphia, PA Temple University Press Animal rights Your child or your dog in his Introduction to Animal Rights:Your Child or Your Dog? (Philadelphia, PA Temple University Press, 2007), pp. 151–166; and Animals as Persons Essays on the Download 484.97 Kb. Share with your friends:
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