Food for thought

Philosopher Gary Steiner has an interesting article in Sunday’s New York Times on whether it is wrong “to kill animals for human consumption.” Steiner comments on how

These uses of animals are so institutionalized, so normalized, in our society that it is difficult to find the critical distance needed to see them as the horrors that they are

Regardless of how one feels on the issue of eating meat, Steiner’s argument illustrates the importance of public philosophy. The fact that it is easy to become desensitized to the ethical choices we face in our day-to-day lives illustrates why philosophy is often dismissed as irrelevant and overly abstract and consequently why it is still so important.

-Luke

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November 23, 2009 · Filed Under Luke, Uncategorized

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    Jacob Bronsther is a law student at NYU, a former Fulbright Scholar to Mauritius, and a graduate of Cornell University. He has an MPhil in Political Theory from the University of Oxford.

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