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The objection that consequentialism demands too much is accepted uncritically by almost all of us...

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Those readers troubled by the fact that millions of people will die this year, who could have been saved for a few dollars each, might want to consider making a contribution to Oxfam...

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My view [is] that what morality boils down to is, Don't harm, and do help. And now the question is, Can creatures like chickens and cows be harmed? And the answer is, Of course they can. Consequently, I think it's immoral to harm them. And that seems to me to provide a very strong moral reason to be vegetarian, to not wear leather... it seems to me that our treatment of animals is morally appalling... and that we ought to radically revise the way we live, precisely because they feel pain, they can be hurt, and we're constantly hurting these creatures!

Shelly Kagan

Shelly Kagan

Bio: Shelly Kagan is the Clark Professor of Philosophy at Yale University and the former Henry R. Luce Professor of Social Thought and Ethics. A native of Skokie, Illinois, he received his B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1976 and his Ph.D.

Known for:

The limits of morality
The geometry of desert
Death
Normative Ethics

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