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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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The current global landscape is quite different from the not-too-distant past. The process of globalization has intensified, and the world is moving…
— Michelle Bachelet
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Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks. Language is…
— Octavio Paz
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We've uncovered some embarrassing ancestors in the not-too-distant past. Some horse thieves, and some people killed on Saturday nights. One of my…
— Jimmy Carter
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The Ojibways have great respect for the Bear. According to their legends, in the distant past the Bear had a human form…
— Norval Morrisseau
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The poetic image […] is not an echo of the past. On the contrary: through the brilliance of any image, the distant…
— Gaston Bachelard
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We rarely know who our ancestors were. Who can even remember the names of their great-grandparents? They have vanished into the dim…
— Dmitri Volkogonov
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It's all love or sex these days. Friendship is almost as quaint and outdated a notion as chastity. Soon friends will be…
— C.S. Lewis
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The pleasantest of all diversions is to sit alone under the lamp, a book spread out before you, and to make friends…
— Yoshida Kenko
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All the particular moral judgments we intuitively make are likely to derive from discarded religious systems, from warped views of sex and…
— Peter Singer
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Words, in their distant past, have the past of my reveries.
— Gaston Bachelard
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Whoever touches the life of the child touches the most sensitive point of a whole which has roots in the most distant…
— Maria Montessori
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One builds one's life in consistency; one invests it with the belief, however unsupported by reality, that one has always been what…
— Aleksandar Hemon
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