TY - JOUR
T1 - Animal welfare and the economy of kindness
AU - Crowe, Jonathan
PY - 2017/6/1
Y1 - 2017/6/1
N2 - This article explores the natural and cultural limits on human kindness towards strangers and non-human animals. I suggest that humans have a deep natural capacity for kindness. However, the duties imposed by this capacity are highly demanding, so we use techniques of ethical avoidance to limit our responsibilities. These techniques play a central role in enabling humans to avoid confronting the suffering caused by practices such as factory farming.
AB - This article explores the natural and cultural limits on human kindness towards strangers and non-human animals. I suggest that humans have a deep natural capacity for kindness. However, the duties imposed by this capacity are highly demanding, so we use techniques of ethical avoidance to limit our responsibilities. These techniques play a central role in enabling humans to avoid confronting the suffering caused by practices such as factory farming.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85021741385&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1037969X17694789
DO - 10.1177/1037969X17694789
M3 - Article
SN - 1037-969X
VL - 42
SP - 14
EP - 17
JO - Alternative Law Journal
JF - Alternative Law Journal
IS - 1
ER -