Team Members of this Blog & Links of the other Teams' Blogs

Team Members of  "Animals Three" :
- Vicky Ho
- Davy Lee
- H Wan
- Victor Wong


Links of the other Teams'  Blogs :

http://abortion2012.blogspot.com/

http://abortionjpg.blogspot.com

http://www.2012euthanasia1.blogspot.com/

http://2012euthanasia2.blogspot.com

URL://euthanasia2012.blogspot.com/

http://phi515-2012.blogspot.com/

 

(From : H Wan)

What are your moral views on people having their pets (e.g. cats) neutered?

(Question raised by  H Wan.)

(From : H Wan)

Please see the following link, and let us share your views:

http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20120223/00178_001.html

(From :H Wan)

(Posted by Davy)

Self-consciousness (by Davy Lee)

Yes, I share with H.Wan that human beings are also animals.

On self-consciousness, I agree that this is one of the differences that distinguishes human and non-human beings. However, the absence of self-consciousness of animals cannot be considered as a reason that animals can be killed. Let's consider examples like a person who is in long-time coma, or a 'human vegetable', or one without the upper-brain, they lose the capability of  self-consciousness, and yet, killing them is a wrongdoing act.

Regarding killing animals for their meat as food as the sole mean of survial of a person, I would consider it not a wrong thing. The problem is, nowaday, we are opened to a big variety of different food, like, corn, vegetable, fruits, vegetable proteins, etc., so, I think we may consider to cut down our meat-eating habit, in order to reduce killing animals.

Perhaps, one thing that may worth considering : when we treat an animal as our pet, then, normally, we would not eat it as food. Why?  Maybe we would regard the pet as a member of the family, or, we have some sort of passionate feeling over the pet.  Any views?

(Written by : Davy Lee )

written by : H Wan

We generally regard an animal as a non-human being which lacks self-consciousness and rationality in mind". I often hear people say that killing an animal lacking self-consciousness is not immoral, for the animal cannot feel any pain or suffering of death -- Is self-consciousness really a critical factor as such? Maybe I can pretend myself to accept fully that it is. But how can we human beings, bearing in mind we are not the animal itself, know for sure that the animal does lack self-consciousness? Even if the animal itself does not know its lack of self-consciousness due to its lack of self-consciousness, does it follow that we can know even better than the animal itself that it does lack self-consciousness because we human beings possess self-consciousness and rationality in (our own, not the animal's) mind?

(Written by : H Wan )

Equality of Animals

The answers to : "What is wrong for killing a person?" , will include :-
- by killing a person we are grabbing away the preference of a person;
- we are stopping the enjoyment of a person;
- we are causing suffering of pain to a person.

Peter Singer tries to explain that it is also wrong to kill animals. Obviously, we generally regard an animal as a non-human being which lacks self-consciousness and rationality in mind. Of course, all the aforesaid three points may also be considered as wrongs in killing some conscious and family-lived mammals, like, gorillas and dolphins, etc.  But, what is a common wrong of killing human beings and all animals is causing pain to them. I think this is the main thought of Peter Singer in his theory of animal equality.

(Written by : Davy )