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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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Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new married couple;…
— Charles Lamb
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There should be no distasteful tasks in one's life. If you just hate to do a thing, that hatred for it develops…
— Walter Russell
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With the greatest respect, we do not make the criminal law on the basis of opinion polls. A majority of 9:1 could…
— Kenneth Clarke
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I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate Marxism, socialism, communism, or any…
— Richard M. Nixon
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A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful…
— William James
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Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which…
— Cynthia Heimel
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It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.
— Francis Drake
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The Tempter masters the lazy and irresolute man who dwells on the attractive side of things, ungoverned in his senses, and unrestrained…
— Gautama Buddha
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To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of…
— John Henry Newman
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Children who willingly participate in sexual acts have the right to make that decision as well, even if it's distasteful to us…
— Mary Ruwart
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All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me.
— Wilfred Owen
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Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a…
— Francis Quarles
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