TEHRAN – The Persian translation of Michael Humer’s “Dialogue on Ethical Veganism” has been released in bookstores across Iran.
The book was translated by Mohsen Eslami and Marji Haqbaz and published by Now Publications, Mair reported.
In this book, first published in 2019, two philosophy students, M, a meat eater, and V, an ethical vegetarian, discuss the ethics of meat consumption.
We revisit the standard arguments on both sides, focusing on the claim that eating meat is wrong because it supports extreme cruelty. M and V also discuss how to weigh conflicting intuitions, whether eating meat is equivalent to participating in the Holocaust, and why ethical arguments can change our behavior even if they change our beliefs. It also addresses questions such as why it is not possible to do so, and how ethical vegetarians behave morally. You should interact with non-vegetarians.
Some of the issues they address include how intelligence affects how bad pain is, whether livestock are better off on factory farms than not at all, whether eating meat is natural, and how morality protects those who don’t understand it. It also includes whether it is protected by morality or not. People who are not members of society, whether only humans have souls, whether different creatures have different degrees of consciousness, and the role of empathy in moral judgment.
The two students go on to discuss vegan life, why people who accept pro-vegan arguments often fail to change their behavior, and how vegans should interact with non-vegans.
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