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10. The Making of Modern Cruelty

verfasst von : Li Way Lee

Erschienen in: Behavioral Economics and Bioethics

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Modern cruelty to animals is both more extensive and more intensive than it was before Industrial Revolution. I attribute these trends to the ascendancy of distancing institutions (such as slaughterhouses and meat-packing plants) and the growing capacity for willful blindness. As we continue to specialize in tasks, find more distancing institutions, and invent ways of promoting willful blindness, we grow more oblivious to our cruelty to animals. We continue to weaken the link from cruelty to compassion, thereby inflicting more cruelty on animals. Further, when there is more cruelty, there is more incentive to promote willful blindness. Cruelty and blindness feed on each other.

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Fußnoten
1
Willful blindness is evident in our languages, too. Balcombe (2016) prefers the word “fishes” to the plural “fish.” Fishes are animals, too. By the same token, I am trying to remember to write and say the plural “sheep” as “sheeps,” though spelling check always corrects me instantly.
 
2
Merchants of complexity sell inattention; they are in the same business as the “merchants of attention” (Wu 2016).
 
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Metadaten
Titel
The Making of Modern Cruelty
verfasst von
Li Way Lee
Copyright-Jahr
2018
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89779-0_10

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