Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-j824f Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-04T19:09:22.178Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

MORAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR HARMING ANIMALS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2009

John Hadley
Get access

Extract

Third-party intervention has been the focus of recent debate in self-defense theory. When is it permissible for third-parties to intervene on behalf of an innocent victim facing an unjustified attack or threat? In line with recent self-defense theory, if an attacker is morally responsible for their actions and does not have an acceptable excuse then it is permissible for third-parties to use proportionate violence against them.

Type
Research Article
Information
Think , Volume 8 , Issue 22 , Summer 2009 , pp. 51 - 55
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2009

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Notes

1 This argument is influenced by the discussion of normative incompetence outlined in Formosa, Paul, ‘Moral Responsibility for Banal Evil’, Journal of Social Philosophy, 37(2006), pp. 501-520CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 Mark Rowlands, Animals Like Us (London: Verso, 2002), p. 195.