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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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Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured…
— William Hazlitt
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The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize…
— Carl Jung
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The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends...
— Hector Hugh Munro
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All sin is selfish, whether it be lying, cheating, stealing, immorality, covetousness, or idleness. Sin is for one's own ends, not for…
— Derek A. Cuthbert
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They have no consciousness therefore. Therefore what? Therefore we are free to use them for our own ends? Therefore we are free…
— J M Coetzee
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History, that is to say, the unconscious, universal life of humanity, in the aggregate, every moment profits by the life of kings…
— Leo Tolstoy
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The air to a glider pilot is a reality. . . . He is trying to understand it in all its moods;…
— Unknown Author
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Expectations of goals and rewards (such as Enlightenment) are recognized for what they are: last-ditch attempts by the ghostly self to subvert…
— Stephen Batchelor
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A hypocrite is one who plays two parts consciously for his own ends. When we find fault with other people we may…
— Oswald Chambers
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I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it's the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the…
— Abdallah II
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America is a fundamentally good country. We have good people with good values who want to do the right thing. But the…
— Edward Snowden
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