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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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Money's important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don't have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.
— Paul Auster
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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Your program must have an overriding purpose which is clearly visible and which teaches lessons beyond winning.
— Don Meyer
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The federal war on drugs is a total failure... The federal government's going in there and overriding state laws... Why don't we…
— Ron Paul
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The cutting of primeval forest and other disasters, fueled by the demands of growing human populations, are the overriding threat to biological…
— E. O. Wilson
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In the end, the overriding factor in whether or not you realize your dreams is going to be you. Not the world.…
— Russell Simmons
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You can at least let sick people have marijuana because it's helpful. But the compassionate conservatives say, well we can't do this,…
— Ron Paul
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Indeed, so deep is my pleasure in the work of the garden that, if there be a dimension after death in which…
— Hal Porter
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My overriding belief is that it is always possible for criminals to improve and that by its very finality the death penalty…
— Dalai Lama
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What people call unemotional just doesnt have a single overriding emotion to it. The things that I like best are the ones…
— Brian Eno
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Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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For me the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged by an overriding passion.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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