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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 is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The existence of any pure race with special endowments is a myth, as is the belief that there are races all of…
— Franz Boas
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Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
— Vince Lombardi
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I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause…
— Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet
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Every city should make the common school so rich, so large, so ample, so beautiful in its endowments, and so fruitful in…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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No man can survey himself without forthwith turning his thoughts towards the God in whom he lives and moves; because it is…
— John Calvin
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I have found that I have no unusual endowments of intellect, but this day I resolve that I will be an uncommon…
— David Livingstone
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That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.
— Mary Astell
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This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned…
— Johann Arndt
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Once we are self-aware, we must choose purposes and principles to live by; otherwise the vacuum will be filled, and we will…
— Stephen Covey
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There cannot be a surer rule, nor a stronger exhortation to the observance of it, than when we are taught that all…
— John Calvin
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The Church is her true self only when she exists for humanity. As a fresh start, she should give away all her…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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