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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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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
— Ben Jonson
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When history looks back, I want people to know the Nazis weren't able to kill millions of people and get away with…
— Simon Wiesenthal
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My life is nothing but pressure. All pressure. This pressure is like a heaviness. It's always on top of me, this heaviness.…
— Rodney Dangerfield
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It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins.
— Karl Barth
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When one looks back over human existence however, it is very evident that all culture has developed through an initial resistance against…
— Beatrice M. Hinkle
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Until one looks back on one's own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has.
— Agatha Christie
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True myths may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal.…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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The Principle of Uncertainty fixed once for all the realisation that all knowledge is limited. It is an irony of history that…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Wanted or unwanted, I believe that human life, even at its earliest stages, has certain rights which must be recognized – the…
— Edward Kennedy
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If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks back at us. If they are animals,…
— Frans de Waal
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It is not only visitors to the zoo who are fascinated but uneasy in the presence of chimpanzees; the same is true…
— Frans de Waal
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Sometimes I heard voices muttering in my head, and a lot of the time the world seemed to smolder around its edges.…
— Denis Johnson
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