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Becoming a vegetarian is not merely a symbolic gesture. Nor is it an attempt to isolate oneself from the ugly realities of…
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The problem is not with the athletes, but with us. No matter how blatant the drug use may be, we don't stop…
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We see things like reciprocity which are fairly central to our view of ethics. But if you're talking about a set of…
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I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather…
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If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter what the…
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Pain is pain, and the importance of preventing unnecessary pain and suffering does not diminish because the being that suffers is not…
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People tend to care about dogs because they generally have more experience with dogs as companions; but other animals are as capable…
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There has been opposition to experimenting on animals for a long time. This opposition has made little headway because experimenters, backed by…
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It may be thought justifiable to require tests on animals of potentially life-saving drugs, but the same kinds of tests are used…
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As for cages themselves, an ordinary citizen who kept dogs in similar conditions for their entire lives would risk prosecution for cruelty.…
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With the eventual acceptance of Darwin's theory we reach a modern understanding of nature, one which has since then changed in detail…
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...chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans are thinking, self-aware beings, capable of planning ahead, who form lasting social bonds with others and have…
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Government is frequently and aptly classed under two descriptions-a government of force, and a government of laws; the first is the definition…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the…
— Jane Austen
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A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing…
— George Bernard Shaw
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All descriptions of matter are descriptions of modes of human perception within consciousness.
— Deepak Chopra
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People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions, and this…
— Paul Hawken
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By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, today in Germany I am called a German man…
— Albert Einstein
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If the resurrection of Jesus cannot be believed except by assenting to the fantastic descriptions included in the Gospels, then Christianity is…
— John Shelby Spong
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In descriptions of Nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets…
— Anton Chekhov
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Habits of thought lead us to brush aside descriptions of cruelty to animals as emotional, for "animal-lovers only"; or if not that,…
— Peter Singer
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...course titles and even course descriptions often fail to reveal what is actually taught (much less learned)...
— Unknown Author
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The apportionment of taxes on the various descriptions of property is an act which seems to require the most exact impartiality; yet…
— James Madison
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By a generative grammar I mean simply a system of rules that in some explicit and well-defined way assigns structural descriptions to…
— Noam Chomsky
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