Animal Abuse Is Unjust

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Animal cruelty and abuse is unjust. Animal cruelty has been a highly discussed topic for quite some time now. Many people have very different opinions on the matter. However, these three reasons can illustrate through the utilitarian perspective how excessive and brutal treatment is unacceptable and wrong. Utilitarian belief is based on the greater good. The first is that this suffering is unneeded and does not produce the end result to justify it. The second is the moral principle of Equal Consideration of Interests for all beings capable of suffering. This states that one should look at all who are affected by the action. The third reason is the Sophisticated Inegalitarian Argument, which compares the inequality of animals to struggles…show more content…
Years ago animals were bred for food, but they were also able to raise and feed their children. They were left with room to move and fed properly. Farms today are much different. Companies force thousands of animals into small cages together, with no room to walk, breathe and hardly ever fed the correct way. The feeding of a breed of an animal to another of the same breed is not uncommon as well. These practices can hardly be considered just or appropriate. Many of these animals die long before they are ever old enough or big enough to be used as food. It would make more sense to breed fewer animals, which therefore would allow for them to live in a healthier environment, eat correctly, and then live on serving their purpose. By the Replacability Argument, by killing these non self-conscious beings, that had been living good lives, we are lessening the amount of good in the world. The only way to justify such actions would be to sustain another…show more content…
When medical breakthrough are made at the expense of an animal, is the happiness of those who can be cured greater than the suffering of the animal who underwent the experiments? Mill would seem to argue that the happiness of someone who has been cured would be longer lasting and better then the self gratifying happiness of an animal. Act utilitarianism would look at each instance of animal testing and determine if the consequences are better if the animal is tested on than if it were not. Finally, cost-benefit analysis would seem to agree with animal testing because innovations in medicine means money made and saved on health care. This would produce the most money and would be the better thing to do if the question is to test or

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