This text was written as my end thesis for the Master Applied Ethics at Utrecht University. The goal was, briefly put, to argue for the making of a real hunting scene in my next stone age movie. It is quite long. The section on animal rights theory was obligatorily dry, in that I had to reconstruct the intricate reasonings...
Research
Written as part of a research internship at Hanno Sauer's Moral Progress research team, Faculty of Humanities, Utrecht University.
This paper was written for the course Ethical Theory and Moral Practice as part of the Master Applied Ethics (UU). The goal was mainly to criticize Peter Singer's views on hunting. The reasoning here was elaborated on in my thesis, available elsewhere on this site.
This paper is aimed at substantiating a film script set in the Stone Age. I am interested in making a scene that features a real hunt with a bow and arrow. Bow hunting is illegal in the Netherlands, and so I want to better understand why this is the case. Written for the course Ethics and Public Policy as...