
John Rawls: Justice as Fairness | Paul Weithman
Brain in a Vat
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Animal Rights - You Made the Vegetarian as Well as He Played the Pre Market Capitalist
"I eat meat, but Mark doesn't. But given that Mark's playing the free free market capitalist here, I feel like it's important to give the animals a voice," he says. "If we had a state where animal rights were entirely irrelevant, it were non-existent, where we could torture and mane and eat animals at will ... what is to stop such a statement from being the one that Rawls recommends?" He adds: "There are lots of other really interesting and important moral questions that the theory isn't designed to address."
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