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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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As things are now going the peace we make, what peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil,…
— Archibald MacLeish
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Surprise quality can be achieved in many ways. It may be produced by a certain stimulating geometrical relationship between elements in the…
— Alexey Brodovitch
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The newspapers do little better. Their coverage of nonhuman animals is dominated by "human interest" events like the birth of a baby…
— Peter Singer
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Science is the only news. When you scan a news portal or magazine, all the human interest stuff is the same old…
— Stewart Brand
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True realism lies in the search for the expression of forms faithful to their content. But there is no content detached from…
— Asger Jorn
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In all the history of the boxing game, you'll find no human interest story to compare with the life narrative of James…
— Damon Runyon
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The human interest, and the natural interest, and the spiritual interest of this planet need to begin to take a priority over…
— Michael Franti
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Listening is not merely not talking...it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told to us.
— Unknown Author
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People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our…
— Alice Duer Miller
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As corporations gain in autonomous institutional power and be-come more detached from people and place, the human interest and the corporate interest…
— David Korten
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If in making a picture you introduce two ideas, you weaken it by half-if three, it weakens by compound ratio-if four, the…
— Howard Pyle
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Once a reporter stood in front of a fire as it consumed a house and then he turned to see the homeowners…
— Barbara Johnson
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