Journal article
Unethical consumption and obligations to signal
H Lawford-Smith
Ethics and International Affairs | CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS | Published : 2015
Abstract
There are many different ways to try to bring about an end to the harms involved in the production of consumer goods. In this article I will start at the bottom, with the individual whose ordinary choices about how to travel, what to eat, what to wear, where to shop, and which policies to support all cause her to confront the possibility of involvement in these harms to the environment, nonhuman animals, and persons. Having dismissed the claim that an individual has a straightforward duty of justice not to consume unethically produced goods, in the second section I map out a few different approaches, all of which I take to be promising avenues for generating duties in individuals to consume ..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This work is supported by the European Commission and the Australian Research Council. I am grateful to the audiences at the Centre for Moral, Social and Political Theory Seminar at the Australian National University, July 14, 2014, and the UK-China Network on Climate Ethics meeting in Reading and Oxford, September 22-23, 2014; and to Richard Healey, Stephanie Collins, Jeremy Dunham, and three anonymous reviewers for EIA for helpful comments and discussion.