Exploitation of a resource is different to exploitation by a company of a worker (meaning it’s unfair or underhanded)
The vegan argument for ‘exploitation’ of bees uses the later definition.
If bees were just a resource there wouldn’t be moral consideration of the bees and vegans wouldn’t mind eating honey because there wouldn’t be anything inherently wrong in doing so. Just like smashing a rock on the ground has no inherent moral element.
it’s not a different definition at all. it’s a difference of morals. bees are only different from rocks ethically of you have an ethical system that defines them as such.
Yes.
Words can have more than one meaning.
Exploitation of a resource is different to exploitation by a company of a worker (meaning it’s unfair or underhanded)
The vegan argument for ‘exploitation’ of bees uses the later definition.
If bees were just a resource there wouldn’t be moral consideration of the bees and vegans wouldn’t mind eating honey because there wouldn’t be anything inherently wrong in doing so. Just like smashing a rock on the ground has no inherent moral element.
it’s not a different definition at all. it’s a difference of morals. bees are only different from rocks ethically of you have an ethical system that defines them as such.