Ethics around wild animal welfare

Ethics around wild animal welfare

Questions:

Are there moral reasons to care about wild animals? Are there moral reasons not to care about wild animals?
  • What are the moral implications of (affective) sentience which we discussed last week?
Do we have different obligations or moral relationships to suffering that we did not cause?

Should we intervene in ‘natural’ states? What kinds of states are natural? How can we tell?

Reading:

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Wikipedia, Appeal to Nature Fallacy (5 mins)
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Animal Ethics, The Relevance of Sentience (10 mins)
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(Optional) J. Mosquera, The Harm They Inflict When Values Conflict (40 mins)
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(Optional) E. Paez, Refusing Help and Inflicting Harm (45 mins)

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