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DeWaal Flashcards

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Examples of De Waals argument

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Kin selection (family)
Reciprocity (not family)
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What does DeWaal argue against?

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The statement that cooperation is unique to humans

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Singer’s main points

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Principle of equality

Animal experimentation/use of animals for food

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Singer on equality

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Everyone is equal if they are capable of having interests

Ex) liberation movements

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Singer on animal experimentation/use of animals for food

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If you can use an animal to save thousands, it’s ok.
Not ok for trivial, superficial reasons
Ok to eat animals if necessary

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Connect singers 2 arguments

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Singer establishes ground for equality, convince you re: animal liberation

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Objections to singer

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  1. How do we know animals can feel pain?

2. Animals eat each other, so why shouldn’t we eat them?

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Sagoff distinguishes between

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Environmentalism and animal liberation

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Environmentalism:

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Preserve ecosystems

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Animal liberation:

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Sentient beings

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Purdue vs Mother Nature

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Animal liberationists should worry more about nature killing animals than humans killing them for consumption

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Diamond

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Wildlife management

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Diamonds human interference

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Keystone species
Habitat fragmentation (national parks disrupt nature)
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Guha is against

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Deep ecology

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Guha is for

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Environmental preservation

Biocentric

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According to Guha, the anthropocentrism/biocentrism dichotomy is _______because

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Irrelevant, emphasis on wilderness is harmful

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According to Guha, the fundamental ecological problems are

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Overconsumption
Growing militarism
(Threats to human survival)

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Problems with allocating wild lands in the 3rd world

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Neglect of the more pressing environmental problems of the poor

Harmful (transfer from poor to rich)

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Willet

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Ecological restoration should restore *function, and the original state

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