I think that the book "Animals and Why they Matter" by Mary Midgley has been interesting so far. She begins the book talking about Life Boat Ethics just as how Kahak talked about it in "The Green Halo." However, Midgley talks about Life Boat Ethics in relation to relatives and competition. She then speaks about how this gives us great moral decision making and i agree with this philosophy because there is so much competition throughout our lives it is unbelievable. Whether it's getting into the college that you want, getting a college scholarship, or competing for a job against someone; all of these happen every day and I agree with Midgley's perspective on this. She also says something that also makes sense: us as human being's cannot take competition so seriously, and we cannot make competition our lives.
I like this book so far, mainly because it talks about some of the same things in the last book that we have read, but it gives us a different perspective and a different thinking to which method we think the right one is.
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