Peter Singer Quotes

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• Killing a defective infant is not morally equivalent to killing a person. Sometimes it is not wrong at all.
• If we compare a severely defective human infant with a nonhuman animal, a dog or a pig, for example, we will often find the nonhuman…
• As we realize that more and more things have global impact, I think we're going to get people increasingly wanting to get away from a…
• Ancient recipients of instant news probably couldn't do very much about it, for instance. Xerxes would still need three months to get his army together,…
• Christianity is our foe. If animal rights is to succeed, we must destroy the Judeo-Christian religious tradition.
• Surely there will be some nonhuman animals whose lives, by any standards, are more valuable than the lives of some humans.
• My view is different from this, only to the extent that if a decision is taken, by the parents and doctors, that it is better…
• Becoming a vegan is a sure way of completely avoiding participation in the abuse of farmed animals. Vegans are a living demonstration of the fact…
• Suppose I grant that pigs and dogs are self-aware to some degree, and do have thoughts about things in the future. That would provide some…
• When the death of a disabled infant will lead to the birth of another infant with better prospects of a happy life, the total amount…
• Of course, infanticide needs to be strictly legally controlled and rare - but it should not be ruled out, any more than abortion.
• The traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, technological and demographic developments.
• Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics.
• Remember that not everyone is as strong as you are. Be mindful of human weakness, and of the fact that it may be more important,…
• We don't usually think of what we eat as a matter of ethics. Stealing, lying, hurting people - these acts are obviously relevant to our…
• All the particular moral judgments we intuitively make are likely to derive from discarded religious systems, from warped views of sex and bodily functions, or…
• Unfortunately for ethical egoism, the claim that we will all be better off if every one of us does what is in his or her…
• If they [animals] were really to get the equal consideration that I believe they should, we wouldn't have commercial animal production in this country.
• Torturing a human being is almost always wrong, but it is not absolutely wrong.
• I do not believe that it could never be justifiable to experiment on a brain-damaged human.

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