Summary Week5 disucssion.docx PHI 208 Should trophy animals be hunted for sport? PHI 208: Ethics and Moral Reasoning Part 1: Introduction Animals have played an integral role in human life since before the dawn of recorded history. However, their roles hav

Week5 PHI 208 Should trophy animals be hunted for sport? PHI 208: Ethics and Moral Reasoning Part 1: Introduction Animals have played an integral role in human life since before the dawn of recorded history. However, their roles have changed dramatically, along with our attitudes toward them and the way they are treated. We can highlight four significant stages in human-animal relations to give us a clear sense of where we are today and what we may have gained or lost along the way (Thames, B. 2018. Sec.9.1). As we have seen, human€“animal relations have changed quite a bit throughout history. There has also been significant variation in the religious and philosophical views on animals throughout history along with the amount of respect these animals received as well during earlier periods of time. The question of whether trophy hunting is ethically justifiable is a huge issue being d