Ole Martin Moen



 (born April 28, 1985) is a Norwegian philosopher. He is employed as a researcher in ethics at the and he is associate professor of teacher education at the, and has received criticism for works and speech since 2015 seen as attempting to legitimize pedophilia.

Quotes

 * The suggestion that we should take wild animal suffering seriously as an ethical issue runs contrary to many of our most powerful biases. It concerns animals for which we, instinctively, feel very little sympathy, and whose suffering we humans did not cause and thus do not feel obliged to help alleviate. The suffering is also far removed from our daily lives and it exists on a scale of magnitude so large that it is hard for us to grasp it. Finally, wild animal suffering challenges a romantic view of nature, which is deeply held by many, and since all large-scale solutions lie far in the future, it is easy for us simply to disregard it.
 * "The ethics of wild animal suffering", Etikk I Praksis - Nordic Journal of Applied Ethics, Vol. 10, Iss. 1 (2016), p. 102


 * One way to increase the chances that the suffering of wild animals will be taken into account in research and development is to challenge the biases and assumptions that make it so difficult for us to address it. Most important, perhaps, is the pre-Darwinian fiction that life in nature is harmonious, and that without human intervention, all is fine and good. The truth is quite the opposite. If we imagined that from now on, animals started emitting a red light every time they suffered, then from space, Earth would no longer be a blue planet, but a red and glowing one.
 * "The ethics of wild animal suffering", Etikk I Praksis - Nordic Journal of Applied Ethics, Vol. 10, Iss. 1 (2016), p. 103