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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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It is in a way a mystery that, instead of demanding that their governments give primary attention to their own needs and…
— J. William Fulbright
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[T]he strike is inherently dangerous to the rich, and to the corporations who have brought this country to her knees, because it…
— Keith Olbermann
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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.…
— Peter Singer
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If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer...When I was…
— Patti Smith
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In a word, removing control farther away from the ordinary citizen and taxpayer is tantamount to giving the intelligent, far-sighted and public…
— Edward Alsworth Ross
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I am afraid the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that the banks can, and do, create money...And they who…
— Reginald McKenna
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There is a denial of the value of the individual. Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it. The…
— Clement Attlee
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Through a blog, an ordinary citizen such as myself can use the Internet, this thing invented by Albert Gore, to talk from…
— John Jay Hooker
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A citizen at his home in Rockford, Illinois, or Boulder, Colorado, could read a newspaper, listen to a radio, or watch the…
— Jeff Greenfield
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The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative…
— Christa McAuliffe
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An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.
— Patti Smith
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I am afraid that the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that the banks can and do create and destroy…
— Richard McKenna
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