Moral Bioenhancement Probably Won’t Improve Things for Animals (and May Make Them Worse)

摘要: Persson and Savulescu are advocates for moral bioenhancement—i.e., using drug treatments genetic engineering to enhance our core dispositions. Among other things, they suggest that bioenhancement would improve how we treat animals. My goal here is argue have little reason think will help in this regard. What’s more, it may make things worse. This because (a) there cognitive mechanisms lead us discount animal interests relative human interests—mechanisms not overridden by increased altruism a stronger sense of justice—and (b) deep tensions between the humans animals well exacerbate.