{"id":204,"date":"2016-03-30T19:48:14","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T02:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/?p=204"},"modified":"2016-03-30T20:31:41","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T03:31:41","slug":"ethical-implications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/2016\/03\/30\/ethical-implications\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethical Implications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Is badger culling for bTB control in Great Britain ethical, according to these different theories?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rsrevision.com\/images\/calvin_ethics.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"239\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Utilitarianism\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Advocated by Peter Singer<\/li>\n<li>What is it?\n<ul>\n<li>Cost-Benefit analysis to choosing actions<\/li>\n<li>Best moral action maximizes utility and minimizes total suffering<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>How does badger culling stack up with this theory?\n<ul>\n<li>May be considered ethical if there eventually is a net benefit of\u00a0decreasing bTB prevalence<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Rights Approach<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Advocated by Tom Regan<\/li>\n<li>What is it?\n<ul>\n<li>Animals have inherent rights as individuals<\/li>\n<li>Animals should not be considered as resources by society<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>How does badger culling stack up with this theory?\n<ul>\n<li>Likely not considered ethical as culling badgers goes against these animals&#8217; inherent rights to live<\/li>\n<li>Raises question of whether society has the right\u00a0to decide which animals get to live or die<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is badger culling for bTB control in Great Britain ethical, according to these different theories? Utilitarianism\u00a0 Advocated by Peter Singer What is it? Cost-Benefit analysis to choosing actions Best moral action maximizes utility and minimizes total suffering How does badger culling stack up with this theory? May be considered ethical if there eventually is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/2016\/03\/30\/ethical-implications\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ethical Implications<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35036,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1600145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethical-implications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35036"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}