Defending the link between ethical veganism and antinatalism

Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 44 (4):415-418 (2023)
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Abstract

In my paper recently published in a collection of controversial arguments in this journal, I argued that the same principles that are behind ethical veganism also warrant antinatalist conclusions. I thus suggested that to be consistent in their ethical reasoning, moral vegans should not have children. William Bülow has kindly responded to my claims and offered a plausible reply, which, according to him, concludes that at least some moral vegans may resist antinatalism. In this short paper, I reply to Bülow.

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The Ethics of Killing.Jeff Mcmahan - 2002 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 71 (2):477-490.
Abortion and Infanticide.Michael Tooley - 1983 - Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Why (at least some) moral vegans may have children: a response to Räsänen.William Bülow - 2023 - Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 44 (4):411-414.

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