Peter Singer Quotes

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• Why...is the hunter who shoots a deer for venison subject to more criticism than the person who buys a ham at the supermarket? Overall, it…
• The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to each other in new ways, posing questions about how…
• That's a central part of philosophy, of ethics. What do I owe to strangers? What do I owe to my family? What is it to…
• All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.
• Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong for our rational,…
• Sometimes we know the best thing to do, but fail to do it. New year's resolutions are often like that. We make resolutions because we…
• The belief that the animals exist because God created them - and that he created them so we can better meet our needs - is…
• More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency.
• But I think the majority of cows, and even more so chickens and pigs, are leading pretty miserable lives.
• The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world.
• The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval.
• We should aim for our children to be good people, and to live ethical lives that manifest concern for others as well as for themselves.
• An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable.
• Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing.
• Can we really believe that we are living a good life, an ethically decent life if we don't do anything serious to help reduce poverty…
• I don't think there's much point in bemoaning the state of the world unless there's some way you can think of to improve it. Otherwise,…
• Dolphins are social mammals, capable of enjoying their lives. They form close bonds with other members of their group.
• Knowing that we can control our own behaviour makes it more likely that we will.
• Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written.
• At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn't mean that you…

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