Don’t Demean “Invasives”: Conservation and Wrongful Species Discrimination
Date
2019-10
Authors
Abbate, C. E.
Fischer, Bob
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Volume Title
Publisher
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Abstract
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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Keywords
discrimination, invasive species, animal rights, Philosophy
Citation
Abbate, C. E., & Fischer, B. (2019). Don’t demean “Invasives”: Conservation and wrongful species discrimination. Animals, 9(11): 871.
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© 2019 The Authors.
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.