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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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If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find…
— George Aiken
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The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes…
— Jean Piaget
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[We need not think] that there is any Contradiction, when Philosophy teaches that to be done by Nature; which Religion, and the…
— Nehemiah Grew
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It is a cruel thought, that, when we feel ourselves standing on the firmest ground in every respect, the cursed arts of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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In the end it is nothing other than the loving kindness with which the woman cares for her child that makes the…
— Gautama Buddha
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Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their limited circumstances, and I will show you ten who are wretched from…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Love's nationality is separate from all other religions, The lover's religion and nationality is the Beloved (God). The lover's cause is separate…
— Unknown Author
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More software projects have gone awry for lack of calendar time than for all other causes combined.
— Fred Brooks
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Market values are fixed only in part by balance sheets and income statements; much more by the hopes and fears of humanity;…
— Gerald M. Loeb
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When a child loses his parent, they are called an orphan. When a spouse loses her or his partner, they are called…
— Ronald Reagan
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Among other causes of misfortune which your not being armed brings upon you, it makes you despised....
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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More and more NFL players have been willing their bodies to science so that their brains can be studied even if they…
— Jeffrey Kluger
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