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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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Well, it's true that I have been hurt in my life. Quite a bit. But it's also true that I have loved,…
— Sarah Dessen
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One drop of eternity is of greater weight than a vast ocean of finite things.
— Karl Barth
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Racists violate the principle of equality by giving greater weight to the interests of members of their own race when there is…
— Peter Singer
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The old beliefs, of course, and the rational approach, are everywhere reinforced, and so it does have a great weight. The magical…
— Jane Roberts
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Also, with information having just come out at the time about J. Edgar Hoover's electronic surveillance of Dr. King, it gave greater…
— Louis Stokes
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Those individuals who give moral considerations a much greater weight than considerations of expediency represent a comparatively small minority, five percent of…
— Leo Szilard
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No government can be trusted, that does not trust its own people with military-style arms of greater weight and power than those…
— Vin Suprynowicz
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We stand for organized terror - this should be frankly admitted. Terror is an absolute necessity during times of revolution. Our aim…
— Felix Dzerzhinsky
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One single idea may have greater weight than all the men, animals, and machines for a century.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Knowledge is a great gift, and the thirst to seek it even greater. Use what you know...Head and heart...You are not made…
— Nora Roberts
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She was waiting, but she didn't know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetrating cold, and…
— Albert Camus
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Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they…
— Lactantius
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