It is “plausible” that there is a moral case for letting meat eaters drown, according to an Oxford University philosopher.
Michael Plant argued in the Journal of Controversial Ideas that in a hypothetical situation it could be justified to let people who eat meat drown, since they cause “suffering” to animals.
He is a research fellow at Oxford University’s Wellbeing Research Centre.
In his paper, Plant wrote that many people accept a duty to save strangers’ lives, such as a child drawing in a pond, while also accepting that it is wrong to cause the suffering of animals in factory farms. According to Plant, this creates a major problem for those who accept and practice the vegan lifestyle.
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