Social media users have criticised an Oxford academic who controversially claimed that letting meat-eaters die if they were drowning can be ethical because of the suffering they cause to animals. Dr Michael Plant, a philosopher focusing on happiness, and who eats meat, argued that it can be justifiable to not save people like himself.Critics immediately disputed his argument, based entirely on a hypothetical scenario where a member of the public witnessed a meat-eater dying.
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