Don’t Demean “Invasives”: Conservation and Wrongful Species Discrimination
It is common for conservationists to refer to non-native species that have undesirable impacts on humans as “invasive”. We argue that the classification of any species as “invasive” constitutes wrongful discrimination. Moreover, we argue that its being wrong t...
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doaj-b186c1fe38074dfebc5f5982b10fa6622020-11-24T21:56:55ZengMDPI AGAnimals2076-26152019-10-0191187110.3390/ani9110871ani9110871Don’t Demean “Invasives”: Conservation and Wrongful Species DiscriminationC.E. Abbate0Bob Fischer1Philosophy Department, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV 89154, USAPhilosophy Department, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX 78666, USAIt is common for conservationists to refer to non-native species that have undesirable impacts on humans as “invasive”. We argue that the classification of any species as “invasive” constitutes wrongful discrimination. Moreover, we argue that its being wrong to categorize a species as invasive is perfectly compatible with it being morally permissible to kill animals—assuming that conservationists “kill equally”. It simply is not compatible with the double standard that conservationists tend to employ in their decisions about who lives and who dies.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/9/11/871invasive speciesdiscriminationanimal rights |
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It is common for conservationists to refer to non-native species that have undesirable impacts on humans as “invasive”. We argue that the classification of any species as “invasive” constitutes wrongful discrimination. Moreover, we argue that its being wrong to categorize a species as invasive is perfectly compatible with it being morally permissible to kill animals—assuming that conservationists “kill equally”. It simply is not compatible with the double standard that conservationists tend to employ in their decisions about who lives and who dies. |
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