Animal Disenhancement & Human Enhancement

Educational Resource
Author:Racine, Valerie
Abstract:

In this case, a philosophy student and vegetarian contemplates whether animal disenhancement - engineering the cognitive and physical abilities of animals so that they cannot suffer psychological and physical harms - would make factory farming more morally acceptable. He also wonders whether philosophical arguments in favor of animal disenhancement could be extended to support human disenhancement.

Keywords:
Animal Use, Controversies, Ethics and Society, Human Enhancement, Research and Practice
Rights:
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Language:
English
Publisher:
Online Ethics Center
Published Date:
2017
Related Links:
  • https://onlineethics.org/cases/human-enhancement-collection/animal-disenhancement-human-enhancement
    • Sponsoring Agency:
    NSF
    Notes:

    Case Study / Scenario

    Persistent Link:
    https://doi.org/10.18130/5bsh-g094