Morality of the owner-pet relationship

• Main Author: Teng, Adeley Yi Siu
• Other Authors: Li Chenyang
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2023
• Subjects: Humanities::Philosophy
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/165460
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this paper, I consider the question of whether keeping pets is morally permissible. I consider three common objections - the dependency objection, the slavery objection, and the property objection. The dependency objection shows that domestication is morally impermissible, and the act of keeping...