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Wild animals and ethical perspectives

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dc.contributor.authorRolston, Holmes, 1932-, author
dc.contributor.authorGreenwood Press, publisher
dc.date.accessioned2007-01-03T05:33:56Z
dc.date.available2007-01-03T05:33:56Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references (page 606).
dc.description.abstractFew ethicists doubt that humans have duties toward domestic animals, but the question of duties to wild animals is more vexed. Leading issues surround hunting and trapping, animal suffering, appropriate levels of management intervention, poisoning, habitat degradation, feral animals, restoration, and endangered species. Duties to wild animals, if they involve care, also involve non-interference, sometimes called hands-off management. Compassion is not the only consideration; and in environmental ethics it plays a different role than in a humanist ethics. Animals live in the wild, subject to natural selection, and the integrity of the species is a result of these selective pressures. To intervene artificially is not to produce any benefit for the good of the kind, although it would benefit an individual bison or whale. Human beings, by contrast, live in culture, where the forces of natural selection are relaxed, and a different ethic is appropriate.
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dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationRolston, Holmes, III, Wild Animals and Ethical Perspectives, Bekoff, Marc, ed., Encyclopedia of Animal Rights and Animal Welfare, 2nd ed., 603-606. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Press, 2010.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10217/48078
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
dc.relation.ispartofEnvironmental Ethics: Anthologies and Journal Articles
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dc.subjectanimal suffering
dc.subjectanimal management
dc.subjecthunting
dc.subjecttrapping
dc.subjectcompassion
dc.subjectlet nature take its course
dc.subjectdomestic versus wild animals
dc.titleWild animals and ethical perspectives
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