Plants, Partial Moral Status, and Practical Ethics
Most authors who work with moral status automatically dismiss the possibility that plants are the kinds of entities that have moral status. This dismissal coheres with our intuitions about common-sense morality: if plants do not have moral status then we do not have any direct moral
obligations to plant life. An implication of such a view is that any suggestion otherwise commits one to be in favour of an absurd conclusion. However, given the recent literature and empirical evidence on plant minds, there are reasons to accept a different perspective that finds the absurd
conclusion plausible.
Document Type: Research Article
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Publication date: 01 January 2021
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