blood sports Flashcards
natural ML and blood sports (synderesis rule, teleology)
- violence is bad, not protecting Gods creation + animal rights
- evil to take away tradition and livelihood
- modern? are they even needed?
- animal purpose to serve as entertainment, dominion not respecting God
- also can eat from the hunted as it preserves innocent life (but the risk of death in the process)
natural ML and blood sports (primary and secondary precepts)
- respecting God, dominion vs stewardship
- order: senseless unethical fighting, protest and campaigning cause disorder, dog fighting is illegal but still practiced, leading to disorder
- risk of death for extreme blood sports does not preserve innocent life; but sustenance can preserve innocent life through survival
- thomas Aq: opposed to blood sports that are illegal due to order in society is disrupted
natural ML and blood sports (deontology)
- duty to protect earth and God’s creation
natural ML and blood sports (real and apparent goods)
- apparent good is to allow blood sport for entertainment, dominion
- real good: stewardship, modern view
natural ML and blood sports (interior and exterior acts)
- exterior acts: bad
- could have more productive uses for the animals
natural ML and blood sports (God)
- ‘love thy neighbour’
- entertainment vs using for food/medicine
natural ML and blood sports (double effect)
- intended for fun but actually hurts animals/creation/nature
natural ML and blood sports (reason)
- conscience, protecting animals or human enjoyment
virtue ethics and blood sports (teleology)
- brings people together, tradition, design and purpose of hunters is fulfilled
virtue ethics and blood sports (eudaimonia)
- makes people happy through enjoyment
virtue ethics and blood sports (pleasure, hon, contemplation)
- pleasure, engagement
- honour: bull fighting for others entertainment
virtue ethics and blood sports (reason)
- humans are higher than animals due to reason which distinguishes
- humans can use reason to decide the benefits of blood sports
virtue ethics and blood sports (community)
- brings community together, tradition
- unethical? protests etc
- dog fighting is detrimental for a community
virtue ethics and blood sports (doctrine of the mean, non numerical)
- needs regulation to keep it safe
- are any acceptable?
virtue ethics and blood sports (moral and intellectual virtues)
- courage, bullfighting
- patience: hunting and shooting –> are any really moral virtues if they come from ethically dubious violence?
- skill, resourcefulness due to competition