What (if Anything) Is Wrong with Bestiality? by Neil Levy

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What (if Anything) Is Wrong with Bestiality?

Neil Levy

From the introduction: In what follows, I will examine the arguments against bestiality, from newspapers and philosophers alike. As we shall see, none of them are very convincing. Nevertheless, I am not willing to conclude, with Singer, that the taboo against bestiality is simply the last residue of a fundamentally superstitious worldview. I therefore devote the last part of the paper to a reconsideration of the taboo. As we shall see, though Singer is right in thinking that bestiality is not immoral, it does not follow from this that giving up the taboo is rational.

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