
#6 — Peter Singer | Utilitarianism and Animals
Within Reason
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Is It Psychologically Impossible to Put Yourself on a Dinner Plate?
The level of psychological trauma involved in doing the thing would be psychologically impossible. Because it's because of that impossibility you therefore can't morally oblige people to do something they physically can't do, he says. The only good moral response is to make this point that actually it's psychologically impossible but if we're going to speak technically then technically speaking it's emotionally impossible for them to act differently as well. "You run into a big kind of roadblock and free will comes into it" - David Cameron.
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