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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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We ought to consider the interests of animals because they have interests and it is unjustifiable to exclude them from the sphere…
— Peter Singer
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Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated…
— John Herschel
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The union of a sect within itself is a pitiful charity; it's no concord of Christians, but a conspiracy against Christ; and they that…
— Joseph Glanvill
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Avarice, greed, concupiscence and so forth are all based on the mathematical truism that the more you get, the more you have.…
— Frederick Buechner
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We forget sometimes that there are saints living among us. When we meet them, we are reminded, not just of the presence…
— Deepak Chopra
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The essence of life is doing things for their own sakes.
— Bertrand Russell
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A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man…
— John Selden
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Though Will was saying earlier,” Tessa added, “that heroes all come to bad ends, and he could not imagine why anyone would…
— Cassandra Clare
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It should not be believed that all beings exist for the sake of the existence of man. On the contrary, all the…
— Maimonides
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Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated…
— John Herschel
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... in the fierce competition ofmodern society the only class left in the country possessing leisure is that of women supported in…
— Unknown Author
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