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Animal rights writer Henry S. Salt termed the replaceability argument the "logic of the larder".. In 1789, the utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham endorsed a variant of the argument, contending that painlessly killing a nonhuman animal is beneficial for everyone because it does not harm the animal and the consumers of the meat produced from the animal's body are better off as a result.
Popular quote "Eat to live, not live to eat" is commonly attributed to Socrates. [22] A quotation from Rhetorica ad Herennium IV.28 : " Esse oportet ut vivas; non vivere ut edas " [ 23 ] ("It is necessary to eat in order to live, not to live in order to eat") [ 24 ] is credited by the Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs to Cicero .
Rashi (the primary Jewish commentator on the Bible and Talmud) lists the prohibition of pig as a law whose reason is not known, and may therefore be derided by others as making no sense. [25] The Sefer HaChinuch [26] (an early work of Halachah) gives a general overview of the Jewish dietary laws. He writes "And if there are any reasons for the ...
German author Bernard Moncriff’s 1856 book The Philosophy of the Stomach; or an Exclusively Animal Diet is the Most Wholesome and Fit for Man outlines an argument for why men can and should eat ...
Lexical threshold" negative utilitarianism says that there is some disutility, for instance some extreme suffering, such that no positive utility can counterbalance it. [22] 'Consent-based' negative utilitarianism is a specification of lexical threshold negative utilitarianism, which specifies where the threshold should be located.
If women work the same job as men, with the same qualifications, for the same amount of time, there’s very little wage gap. In America, a woman can be a Supreme Court justice, even with seven ...
Punishment might make "bad people" into "better" ones. For the utilitarian, all that "bad person" can mean is "person who's likely to cause unwanted things (like suffering)". So, utilitarianism could recommend punishment that changes someone such that they are less likely to cause bad things. Successful rehabilitation would reduce recidivism. [155]
Victoria Woodhull was the first woman to run for president in the U.S. and she made her historic run in 1872 – before women even had the right to vote! She supported women's suffrage as well as welfare for the poor, and though it was frowned upon at the time, she didn't shy away from being vocal about sexual freedom.