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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…
• The problem is not with the athletes, but with us. No matter how blatant the drug use may be, we don't stop…
• We see things like reciprocity which are fairly central to our view of ethics. But if you're talking about a set of…
• I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather…
• If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter what the…
• Pain is pain, and the importance of preventing unnecessary pain and suffering does not diminish because the being that suffers is not…
• People tend to care about dogs because they generally have more experience with dogs as companions; but other animals are as capable…
• There has been opposition to experimenting on animals for a long time. This opposition has made little headway because experimenters, backed by…
• It may be thought justifiable to require tests on animals of potentially life-saving drugs, but the same kinds of tests are used…
• As for cages themselves, an ordinary citizen who kept dogs in similar conditions for their entire lives would risk prosecution for cruelty.…
• With the eventual acceptance of Darwin's theory we reach a modern understanding of nature, one which has since then changed in detail…
• ...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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