Christian Ethics Moral Status of Animals 1 MORAL STATUS OF ANIMALS 2017
Moral Status of Animals 2 Re-evaluating Moral Status of Animals There is a veil of ignorance when the discussion regarding barring the animals from moral concern take place. The arguments on extensive animal exploitation and excluding animals from the moral sphere of ethics have been doing the rounds since years. There is no proper scope of moral obligations which are defined by philosophers and no justification has been given to the idea of distinction between humans and animals. The theories are pounded on the concern and divided in categories which are: direct but unequal theory and the moral equality theory. Another theory named indirect theory are not considered in ethics as this theory deny the moral status of animals by taming the reasons on lacking the consciousness and autonomy which resulted into denying the consideration of animals in moral sphere (Lindsay, 2017). In direct but unequal theory the harmonization of moral consideration to animals is supported but not fully as the reasoning has been given the inability to respect other agent’s rights and moral reciprocity in a community of agents having equal rights. This category consist of arguments regarding mindful feel of animals not to cause direct harm to animals. The area where interests of human and animals controvert is their own special properties of rationality, autonomy and self-consciousness in humans which are considered of higher interests than animals (Jaworska, and Tannenbaum, 2013). Moral equality theory is about extending the equal consideration and moral status to animals by giving moral relevance to the special properties mentioned above. There thought on moral equalities extend up to the rights of animals and as they said on the grounds of capacities in terms of physiological and mental are same (Berkman, and Deane-Drummond, 2014). The re-evaluation of the moral status of animals by Christians which are becoming concerned with the animal suffering in the way. The traditional view of Christians in relation to animal suffering was not as good as it is today, in modern scenario Christians believe that the unnecessary treatment of animals is morally wrong as per social code of conduct. The traditional approach of Christians about the degradation of animals is that they say it is a law of universe that animals should be eaten by others and the law is supported by reasons: The creation of animals by god is done in the way that humans are entitled to use them in the way they want to;
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