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Tagarchief: wild animal welfarism
The harm cascade: why helping others is so hard
Altruism, helping others, is so difficult. Suppose you save a child’s live, and many years later that child becomes a new Hitler, killing thousands of people. Of course this is very unlikely, because there are not many Hitlers in the … Lees verder
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Blatant contradictions in the argument that predation benefits ecosystems
Predation causes a lot of suffering. Still, many people, especially ecologists, defend predation by arguing that it benefits ecosystems. However, the idea that predation enhances something like ecosystem health or biodiversity is very disputable. What does it even mean to … Lees verder
The priority for strong personal-state preferences (and implications for wild animal welfare)
This article describes a very fundamental idea in ethics: that we should give priority to the satisfaction of the strongest personal-state preferences. A personal-state preference is a preference held by an individual that refers to the state of that individual, … Lees verder
Relativistic welfare, farm animal abolitionism and wild animal welfarism
Brief summary: whether someone’s aggregate welfare is positive or negative is morally relevant. If welfare is negative, life is not worth living and it would be better not to exist (or better to be euthanized). However, especially when it comes … Lees verder
Stijn Bruers, the rational ethicist 