TAILIEUCHUNG - Moral Status Phần 3

Nó không phải là rõ ràng cho dù Schweitzer là một logic hoặc một yêu cầu bồi thường về tâm lý trong đoạn văn trích dẫn. Tuy nhiên, đó rõ ràng là sai lầm rằng bất kỳ sự phân biệt mà chúng ta rút ra giữa tình trạng đạo đức của con người và vi khuẩn sẽ có. | Reverence for Life 45 implied by it but that many people may nevertheless be predisposed to draw from it. It is not clear whether Schweitzer is making a logical or a psychological claim in the passage just quoted. However it is clearly false that any distinction that we draw between the moral status of people and that of bacteria will have as a logical consequence that there are some people who have the moral status of bacteria. For instance both the sentience and moral agency criteria logically suffice to block that inference. It is more likely then that Schweitzer is describing what he takes to be a psychological tendency the tendency having once established distinct categories of moral status to place some persons in the lowest category. Schweitzer s argument thus construed may appear plausible. It is true that many people habitually demean others by comparing them to forms of life that are considered especially unattractive such as pond scum algae . Perhaps if we saw algae as our moral equals we would also be more inclined to see other people that way. There is however no persuasive evidence of the psychological slide that Schweitzer warns against. Persons who routinely kill algae and feel no guilt about it aquarium keepers for instance do not seem to be especially likely to harm other persons or seriously to equate their moral status with that of algae. The robust distinction that most of us make between the moral status of human beings and that of algae prevents us from making any inference from the permissibility of harming algae to the permissibility of harming human beings. Thus the psychological slope is less slippery than Schweitzer would have us believe. . The Argument from Teleological Organization Schweitzer has not presented a persuasive case for the Life Only view . that life is a necessary and sufficient condition for full moral status. Even the Life Plus view that life is sufficient for some moral status but not for full moral status .

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