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  • 标题:Wild Fish and Expected Utility
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  • 作者:Bob Fischer ; Bob Fischer
  • 期刊名称:Bangladesh Journal of Bioethics
  • 印刷版ISSN:2226-9231
  • 电子版ISSN:2078-1458
  • 出版年度:2017
  • 卷号:8
  • 期号:1
  • 页码:1-6
  • DOI:10.3329/bioethics.v8i1.31078
  • 语种:English
  • 出版社:Bangladesh Bioethics Society
  • 摘要:It’s difficult to process the number of fish killed annually by the fishing industry. Nevertheless, governments are encouraging people to eat even more fish—see, e.g., the USDA dietary guidelines—and although animal advocates certainly don’t concur with this advice, they generally haven’t prioritized fish in their lobbying efforts. Given the influence of utilitarianism on animal advocacy, the odds are good that this is motivated by an expected utility calculation. For those concerned about fish, is there any way to defend them against this calculation? I argue for an affirmative answer: once you factor in an asymmetry between fishing and terrestrial animal agriculture, the expected utility calculation comes out in favor of devoting resources to reducing fishing.
  • 关键词:fish; animal advocacy; expected utility
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