{"id":1543,"date":"2021-07-01T20:40:44","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T19:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/?p=1543"},"modified":"2021-07-01T20:41:56","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T19:41:56","slug":"critique-of-bobier-christopher-2021-what-would-the-virtuous-person-eat-the-case-for-virtuous-omnivorism-journal-of-agricultural-and-environmental-ethics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2021\/07\/01\/critique-of-bobier-christopher-2021-what-would-the-virtuous-person-eat-the-case-for-virtuous-omnivorism-journal-of-agricultural-and-environmental-ethics\/","title":{"rendered":"Critique of Bobier, Christopher (2021) What Would the Virtuous Person Eat? The Case for Virtuous Omnivorism. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Critique of What Would the Virtuous Person Eat? The Case for Virtuous Omnivorism<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Insects and oysters have a nervous system. They are sentient beings and they feel pain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. It is not necessary for human health to consume sentient beings \u2014 not mammals, birds, reptiles, or invertebrates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. It is plants (and microbes) that do not have a nervous system and hence do not feel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. What is wrong is to make sentient beings suffer or die other than out of conflict of vital (life-or-death) interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5. Morality concerns, among other things, not harming other sentient beings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rest of the proposal of Christopher Bobier is unfortunately mere casuistry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To help the victims of plant agriculture  for human consumption, perhaps strive instead to develop an agriculture that is more ecological and more merciful to the sentient beings who are entangled in mass consumption by the human population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of fallacies like the call to consume some sentient victims so as to give further sentient victims the opportunity to become victims, it might be more virtuous to consider reducing the rate of growth in the number of human consumers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

De la casuistique d\u2019un \u00ab\u00e9thicien\u00bb concernant la \u00ab vertu\u00bb<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Les insectes et les huitres ont un syst\u00e8me nerveux. Ils sont des \u00eatres sentients et ils ressentent la douleur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Il n’est pas n\u00e9cesaire \u00e0 la sant\u00e9 humaine de consommer les \u00eatres sentients — ni mammif\u00e8re, ni oiseau, ni r\u00e9ptile, ni invert\u00e9br\u00e9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. C’est les plantes (et les microbes) qui n’ont pas de syst\u00e8me nerveux et donc ne ressentent pas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. Ce qui est mal, c’est de faire souffrir ou mourrir les \u00eatres sentients sans n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 vitale (conflit d’int\u00e9r\u00eat de vie ou de mort).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5. La moralit\u00e9 concerne, entre autres, ne pas faire mal aux autres \u00eatres sentients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le reste du propos de ce \u00ab scientifique \u00bb n’est que du casuistique. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pour aider aux victimes de l’agriculture des plantes aux fins de la consommation humaine, lutter peut-\u00eatre plut\u00f4t pour d\u00e9velopper une agriculture plus \u00e9cologique et plus mis\u00e9ricordieuse envers les \u00eatres sentients qui sont emp\u00e9tr\u00e9s dans la consommation de masse par la population humaine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Au lieu de sophismes comme l’appel \u00e0 consommer des de victimes sentientes pour donner l’occasion \u00e0 davantage de victimes sentientes \u00e0 devenir victimes, il serait peut-\u00eatre plus vertueux de songer \u00e0 r\u00e9duire le taux de croissance du nombre de consommateurs humains…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Critique of What Would the Virtuous Person Eat? The Case for Virtuous Omnivorism 1. Insects and oysters have a nervous system. They are sentient beings and they feel pain. 2. It is not necessary for human health to consume sentient beings \u2014 not mammals, birds, reptiles, or invertebrates. 3. It is plants (and microbes) that … <\/p>\n

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