Regan của cuộc thảo luận về "mối đe dọa vô tội" giao dịch với những trường hợp mà bệnh nhân đạo đức gây hại cho các đại lý đạo đức, nhưng ông không cung cấp dấu hiệu nguy hiểm nhưng các đại lý đạo đức vô tội có thể không còn bị giết để bảo vệ các đại lý đạo đức và bệnh nhân đạo đức. | 96 CHAPTER TWO lives of many people in jeopardy. Regan s discussion of innocent threats deals with situations where moral patients harm moral agents but he offers no indication that dangerous but innocent moral agents might not also be killed to protect moral agents and moral patients. People are often ignorant of the damage they do but humans more than any other animal endanger life. To eliminate every other species when they pose an innocent threat but not to eliminate humans in comparable situations would be inconsistent and speciesist. The vast majority of Western hunters kill for recreation. They kill because they consider hunting a worthwhile and enjoyable way to spend time and because they or someone they know eats dead any-mals. Few acknowledge or even consider that killing anymals for food is completely unnecessary for their survival and that such sport causes tremendous hardship and harm to other living beings. In fact hunters usually assert that they do their victims a favor Thus hunters needlessly endanger and destroy thousands of anymals every year and may be said to do so innocently out of ignorance . Regan s innocent threats clause justifies the killing of rabid foxes that might bite out of fear or in self-defense . Consistency requires that his theory also permit the killing of ignorant and therefore innocent human beings who habitually and unnecessarily slaughter innocent anymals. To eliminate other species when they pose an innocent threat but not to eliminate humans in comparable situations is inconsistent. b. Loss of Innocence Regan asserts that those who have lost innocence through unjust actions have no grounds to complain if we override their right not to be harmed and spare the victims of their past injustice Case 323 . Injustices borne by some grant these beleaguered individuals privileges above those who perpetrate such injustices. He asserts Those who forge as well as those who perpetuate injustice are not on the same moral footing as .
