素食主义者应该生孩子吗?对莱萨宁的回应。

Theoretical medicine and bioethics Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Epub Date: 2024-05-14 DOI:10.1007/s11017-024-09664-4
Louis Austin-Eames
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约娜-拉萨宁(Joona Räsänen)认为,素食主义者应该是反生育主义者,因此不应该生孩子。更确切地说,拉塞宁声称,接受功利主义或基于权利的素食主义论点的素食主义者,根据等价推理,也应该接受反生育主义的类似论点。在本文中,我认为素食者不购买动物产品的理由并不意味着他们要放弃生育。我为以下结论提供了新颖的论据:虽然有充分的理由相信工厂化养殖会带来净效用,并涉及将非人类动物视为单纯的手段,但没有充分的理由相信生孩子会带来净效用,或涉及将孩子视为单纯的手段。随后,我回应了我所认为的赖斯宁的基本推理--素食主义者致力于放弃其他会造成不必要痛苦的做法。我在回应时指出,这种说法似是而非,因为造成不必要痛苦的各种做法很可能是允许的,而工厂化养殖则不允许。
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Should vegans have children? A response to Räsänen.

Joona Räsänen argues that vegans ought to be anti-natalists and therefore abstain from having children. More precisely, Räsänen claims that vegans who accept a utilitarian or rights-based argument for veganism, ought to, by parity of reasoning, accept an analogous argument for anti-natalism. In this paper, I argue that the reasons vegans have for refraining from purchasing animal products do not commit them to abstaining from having children. I provide novel arguments to the following conclusion: while there is good reason to believe that factory farming results in a net disutility and involves treating non-human animals as mere means, there is not good reason to believe that having children results in a net disutility or involves treating the children as mere means. Subsequently, I respond to what I take to be Räsänen's underlying reasoning-that vegans are committed to abstaining from other practices which cause unnecessary suffering. I respond by arguing that this is plausibly false as various practices which cause unnecessary suffering are likely permissible, whereas factory farming is not.

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