Book contents
- Animal Ethics in the Wild
- Animal Ethics in the Wild
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Moral Considerability
- Chapter 2 Speciesism
- Chapter 3 Wild Animal Suffering
- Chapter 4 Perversity and Futility
- Chapter 5 Jeopardy
- Chapter 6 Relationality
- Chapter 7 Priority
- Chapter 8 Tractability
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
Introduction
Helping Animals
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 January 2023
- Animal Ethics in the Wild
- Animal Ethics in the Wild
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Moral Considerability
- Chapter 2 Speciesism
- Chapter 3 Wild Animal Suffering
- Chapter 4 Perversity and Futility
- Chapter 5 Jeopardy
- Chapter 6 Relationality
- Chapter 7 Priority
- Chapter 8 Tractability
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
Summary
This book relies on two main assumptions. Here is the first one: suffering is bad. Being burned alive or starving to death make you suffer. They feel bad. If you could do something to prevent bad things from happening, or otherwise alleviate their impact on individuals, without thereby bringing about more bad things in the world, and without jeopardizing anything of similar or greater importance, you ought to do it. This is the second assumption.
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- Animal Ethics in the WildWild Animal Suffering and Intervention in Nature, pp. 1 - 9Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022