首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
考研
Do animals have rights? This is how the question is usually put. It sounds like a useful, ground-clearing way to start. (46)Actu
Do animals have rights? This is how the question is usually put. It sounds like a useful, ground-clearing way to start. (46)Actu
admin
2010-09-06
39
问题
Do animals have rights? This is how the question is usually put. It sounds like a useful, ground-clearing way to start. (46)
Actually, it isn’t because it assumes that there is an agreed account of human rights, which is something the world does not have.
On one view of rights, to be sure, it necessarily follows that animals have none. (47)
Some philosophers argue that rights exist only within a social contract, as part of an exchange of duties and entitlements.
Therefore animals cannot have rights. The idea of punishing a tiger that kills somebody is absurd; for exactly the same reason, so is the idea that tigers have rights. However, this is only one account, and by no means an uncontested one. It denies rights not only to animals but also to some people—for instance, to infants, the mentally incapable and future generations. In addition, it is unclear what force a contract can have for people who never consented to it: how do you reply to somebody who says "I don’t like this contract"?
The point is this: without agreement on the rights of people, arguing about the rights of animals is fruitless. (48)
It leads the discussion to extremes at the outset: it invites you to think that animals should be treated either with the consideration humans extend to other humans, or with no consideration at all.
This is a false choice. Better to start with another, more fundamental, question: is the way we treat animals a moral issue at all?
Many deny it. (49)
Arguing from the view that humans are different from animals in every relevant respect, extremists of this kind think that animals lie outside the area of moral choice.
Any regard for the suffering of animals is seem as a mistake—a sentimental displacement of feeling that should properly be directed to other humans.
This view, which holds that torturing a monkey is morally equivalent to chopping wood, may seem bravely "logical". In fact it is simply shallow: the confused centre is right to reject it. The most elementary form of moral reasoning—the ethical equivalent of learning to crawl—is to weigh others’ interests against one’s own. This in turn requires sympathy and imagination: without which there is no capacity for moral thought. To see an animal in pain is enough, for most, to engage sympathy. (50)
When that happens, it is not a mistake: it is mankind’s instinct for moral reasoning in action, an instinct that should be encouraged rather than laughed at.
选项
答案
这种反应并不错,这是人类用道德观念进行推理的本能在起作用。这种本能应该得到鼓励,而不是遭到嘲笑。
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/i6Z4777K
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
Individualsandbusinesseshavelegalprotectionforintellectualpropertytheycreateandown.Intellectualproperty【C1】_______
Tofunctionwellintheworld,peopleneedagoodsenseofwheretheirbodyisinspaceandhowit’spostured.This"positionse
Thegrowthspeeialisationinthe19thcenturymightbemoreclearlyseeninsciencessuchas______.Theauthorwritesofthed
Doanimalshaverights?Thisishowthequestionisusuallyput.Itsoundslikeauseful,ground-clearingwaytostart.(T1)Actu
Inthiswaytheseinsectsshowanefficientuseoftheir(sound-produced)ability,(organizing)twosounds(delivered)atahigh
Mostnewspapers,(whiledevoting)themajorpartof(its)spacetorecentevents,usuallymanagetofind(room)ontheinsidepa
Youaregoingtoreadatextabouthowtokeepyourjob,followedbyalistofimportantexamples.Choosethebestexamplesfrom
Youaregoingtoreadatextabouthowtokeepyourjob,followedbyalistofimportantexamples.Choosethebestexamplesfrom
Sowhatisdepression?Depressionisoftenmoreaboutangerturned(1)_____thanitisaboutsadness.Butit’susually(2)_____
Generallyspeaking,aBritishiswidelyregardedasaquiet,shyandconservativepersonwhois(1)_____onlyamongthosewithw
随机试题
冈察洛夫在长篇小说《( )》中塑造了懒惰成性、不可救药的“多余人”的典型形象。
带脉的功能为
A.应该在指定医疗机构内用于特定医疗目的B.只能在本医疗机构内部凭医师处方使用C.必须是临床急需而市场上没有供应的D.必须是临床急需而市场供应少的E.是公共利益需要的医疗机构自制制剂
为人民服务是集体主义的最高表现。()
根据我国《税收征收管理法》的规定,对扣缴义务人应扣未扣的税款,下列选项中,不正确的有()。
根据我国《公司法》规定,有限责任公司监事会可行使的职权有( )。
验收作业的程序包括()。
《白瓷孩儿枕》属于()瓷窑体系。
共同犯罪中的主犯包括()。
Lookatthechartbelow.Itshowsamanufacturingcompany’sexpenditureonrecruitmentandtraining,anditsproductionlevelso
最新回复
(
0
)