In Defense of Tigers and Wolves.
McMahan, Nussbaum, and Johannsen have recently suggested that humans should seek to eliminate predators from the wild or avoid reintroducing them if this can be done without great harm to an ecosystem. This is because predators cause a great deal of pain to those sentient animals which are their pre...
| Publicado en: | Ethics & the Environment Vol. 27; no. 1; pp. 17 - 39 |
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Indiana University Press
Spring2022
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