Animal Disenhancement for Animal Welfare: The Apparent Philosophical Conundrums and the Real Exploitation of Animals. A Response to Thompson and Palmer

摘要: In his paper “The Opposite of Human Enhancement: Nanotechnology and the Blind Chicken problem” (Nanoethics 2: 305-36, 2008) Thompson argued that technological attempts to reduce or eliminate selected non-human animals’ capabilities (animal disenhancements) in order solve mitigate animal welfare problems use pose a philosophical conundrum, because there is contradiction between rational arguments favor these interventions intuitions against them. her response “Animal Disenhancement Non-Identity Problem: A Response Thompson” 5:43–48, 2011), Palmer maintained conundrum even deeper if we introduce non-identity problem into discussion. my brief response, I claim avoid pitfalls speculative ethics, empirical facts related technologies involved as well costs for animals have be taken account. Depending on which changes are referring to, ethical can seen very differently. Widening consideration socio-economic context currently used by humans, challenge idea genuine conundrums from an antispeciesist abolitionist perspective. Only exploitation, deprived basic rights their existence totally dependent human contradictions improvement disenhancement make sense.