Humans, Elves, and Greenland Sharks: Against Kagan’s Distributive Argument for Hierarchical Moral Status
Shelly Kagan argues that “unitarianism,” the claim that animals and humans have equal moral status, has intuitively implausible distributive implications. I argue that Kagan’s reasoning can, with certain modifications, be applied equally well to undermine his own view, and that the responses Kagan c...
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DigitalCommons@CalPoly
2020
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Online Access: | https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/bts/vol24/iss1/6 https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/context/bts/article/2214/viewcontent/Crummett.pdf |