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SPECTRUM OF MORALITY
Immoral Behavior
Moral Behavior
 murder
 perjury
 suicide
 child abuse
 execution
 white lies
 killing in a “just” war
ETHICS
Ethical Behavior
Unethical Behavior
 honesty
 truthfulness
 concern for others
 hard work
 stealing
 lying
 killing
 cheating
 laziness
ETHICS
Ethics is a branch of philosophy that tries to define what is fundamentally right and
wrong, regardless of cultural differences.
It’s about the way the world ought to be or should be. Focusing on how the world
should be gives ethical questions a different nature altogether
MORALS
Morals differ somewhat from ethics in that they reflect the predominant attitudes and
feeling of a culture about ethical issues.
Some people think, for instance, that Robin Hood’s stealing to feed the poor was
unethical but still moral.
If ethics and morality say different things, you need to find out what the relationship
between you and your customers should be and how you should act, feel, and
think toward them based on that relationship.
THOUGHTS ON NONHUMAN LIFE
Whenever I injure life of any kind I must be quite clear as
to whether this is necessary or not. I ought never to
pass the limits of the unavoidable, even in apparently
insignificant cases. The countryman who has mowed
down a thousand blossoms in his meadow as fodder
for his cows should take care that on the way home he
does not, in wanton pastime, switch off the head of a
single flower growing on the edge of the road, for in so
doing he injures life without being forced to do so by
necessity.
Albert Schweitzer
ANIMAL RIGHTS GOALS
Total abolition of the use of animals in science
Total dissolution of commercial animal agriculture
Total elimination of commercial and sport hunting and trapping
ANIMAL LIBERATION
“…we require now to extend the great principles of liberty, equality and fraternity over
the lives of animals. Let animal slavery join human slavery in the graveyard of the
past.”
Patrick Corbett, Professor of Philosophy at Sussex University
ANIMAL LIBERATION
“What else is the insuperable line? Is it the
faculty of reason? But a full-grown horse or
dog is beyond comparison a more rational, as
well as more conversable animal, than an
infant of a day, a week, or even a month old.
But suppose they were otherwise, what would
it avail? The question is not, Can they reason?
nor Can they talk? The question is Can they
suffer? Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) English
philosopher and political radical
ECOTERRORISM
The term "eco-terrorism" (or ecoterrorism) refers to two different kinds of terrorism:
 (1) terrorism intended to hinder activities considered harmful to the environment,
and
 (2) terrorism intended to damage the environment of an enemy.
VIOLENCE
Ron Arnold, a leader of the anti-environmental "Wise Use"
movement, argues for a broad definition of eco-terrorism
that includes almost every crime committed on behalf of
the environment, even acts of civil disobedience.
Many environmentalists, however, passionately disagree with
this usage, preferring to distinguish between "ecosabotage" (an assault on inanimate objects) and terrorism
(an assault on living things).
The environmentalist David Brower, for instance, has argued
that the real terrorists are those who pollute and despoil
the earth, not those who seek to protect it.
1970S, 80S, & 90S ECOTERRORISM
 Began after first Earth Day - 1970
 "Arizona Phantom" tore up
railroad tracks and disabled
equipment in an attempt to
stop construction of a coal
mine in the desert highlands.
 "Eco-Raiders" burned
billboards, disabled bulldozers,
and vandalized development
projects in and around Tucson,
causing over half a million
dollars of damage - a group of
college students.
MODERN ECOTERRORISM
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society 1977 - www.seashepherd.org
Earth First!
www.earthfirst.org
Greenpeace
www.greenpeace.org
MODERN BILLBOARD BANDITS
MODERN BILLBOARD BANDITS
MODERN BILLBOARD BANDITS
MODERN BILLBOARD BANDITS
NRS 100, ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS
RECENT ECOTERRORISM
FBI Investigating Arson;
Ecoterrorism Possible
Motive
Destroys 41 Homes, Amounting To
$10 Million In Damage, Indian
Head, MD - Dec. 7, 2004
The Sierra Club called the
development "quintessential
sprawl" in its Fall 2000 sprawl
report, noting it is far from
existing infrastructure and
"threatens a fragile wetland and
important historical sites near
the Chesapeake Bay."
ENVIRONMENTAL BILL OF RIGHTS
In 1987, the National Wildlife Federation made a
resolution calling for the U.S. Constitution to include
an Environmental Bill of Rights
 “The people have the right to clean air, pure water, productive soils,
and to the conservation of the natural, scenic, historic,
recreational, esthetic, and economic values of the environment.
America’s natural resources are the common property of all
people, including generations yet to come. As trustees of these
resources, the United States Government shall conserve and
maintain them for the benefit of all people.”