Dois pensadores -Peter Singer e Michael Huemer- reflectem sobre o COVID-19

Peter Singer e Michael Huemer discutem a origem da doença, isto é, os mercados de animais vivos da China, não apenas do ponto de vista da transmissão de doenças mas também do ponto de vista ético e moral, do sofrimento que esses mercados causam aos  animais que são aí vendidos vivos e logo de seguida mortos à frente do cliente, depois de horas de agonia a verem outros animais morrerem cruelmente, à sua frente, numa antecipação do que lhes vai acontecer.
Dois artigos enviados, muito simpaticamente, pelo Domingos Faria.


The Two Dark Sides of COVID-19

por Peter Singer

Both the 2003 SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) epidemic and the current one can be traced to China’s “wet markets” – open-air markets where animals are bought live and then slaughtered on the spot for the customers. Until late December 2019, everyone affected by the virus had some link to Wuhan’s Huanan Market.

(...) Historically, tragedies have sometimes led to important changes. Markets at which live animals are sold and slaughtered should be banned not only in China, but all over the world.

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How to Prevent New Diseases like Covid 19

por Michael Huemer

Think about what would happen if there was a disease as deadly as AIDS and as contagious as Covid 19. I think there is a non-negligible chance that this is how the human species will finally end.

Where do these things come from? (...) The disease enters a human population through a meat-eater, mutates (except Mad Cow, which is a prion disease, not a virus), then spreads from there.