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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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I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Every climate scientist has his or her own views on some issues that differ from the mainstream in detail. But the broad…
— Ross Garnaut
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One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.
— Laozi
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How do I know that I know this, except that I've always been taught this and never heard anything else? How sure…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Pro-choice and pro-life activists live in different worlds, and the scope of their lives, as both adults and children, fortifies them in…
— Unknown Author
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Today courts wrongly interpret separation of church and state to mean that religion has no place in the public arena, or that…
— Dinesh D'Souza
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I'm no great fan of the phallus, and have made my own views known on this subject before, so I do not…
— Judith Butler
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A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours.
— Malcolm Forbes
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In Gilead, the narrator's friend's son describes himself not as an atheist but in "state of categorical unbelief." He says, "I don't…
— Will Schwalbe
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It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves. It is more difficult…
— Peter Singer
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While I hold my own views, it's important not to get too wrapped up in individual candidates and personalities, but instead to…
— Marcus Samuelsson
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It feels great to have your own views reflected back to you, and you feel so right, but actually it's very dangerous.…
— Eli Pariser
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