Animal welfare, ethics and the work of the International Whaling Commission
نام عام مواد
[Article]
نام نخستين پديدآور
/ Robert William Garner
يادداشت کلی
متن يادداشت
9626-1744
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متن يادداشت
This article provides a critique of the IWC's traditional focus on anthropocentric conservation in the governance of whaling. It is argued that this position, which relies on accepting the view that we have no direct moral duties to whales, is out of step with the moral status that now tends, in theory and practice, to be granted to animals. More specifically, anthropocentric conservation conflicts with the widespread acceptance, in theory and practice, that nonhuman animals such as whales have moral standing, that what we do to them matters to them directly. This does not mean that whaling should necessarily be prohibited on ethical grounds, although the animal welfare analysis of whaling sketched in this article does suggest that, on balance, it is difficult to defend morally. Rather, it is being claimed that it is morally objectionable to deny, as the whaling nations do, that the IWC ought to be mandated to consider the welfare implications of whaling.
مجموعه
تاريخ نشر
, (December 2011)
توصيف ظاهري
: 279-290
عنوان
Journal of Global Ethics
شماره جلد
, 7/3
موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
موضوع مستند نشده
whaling
موضوع مستند نشده
ethics
موضوع مستند نشده
International Whaling Commission
موضوع مستند نشده
animal welfare
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