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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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The black masses want not to be shrunk from as though they are plague-ridden. They want not to be walled up in…
— Malcolm X
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In fact, nothing in science as a whole has been more firmly established by interwoven factual information, or more illuminating than the…
— E. O. Wilson
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It should be noted, as with so many legends and popularly accepted truths created out of political motivation: There, in fact, is…
— Zeena Schreck
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PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of the knife-and-fork that Evolution has as yet denied…
— Ambrose Bierce
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My aim is to advocate that we make this mental switch in respect of our attitudes and practices towards a very large…
— Peter Singer
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The conductor's gift does not always go hand in hand with that of composition; indeed, the union is found much more seldom…
— Anton Seidl
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The true meaning of money yet remains to be popularly explained and comprehended.
— Theodore Dreiser
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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
— Robert Frost
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What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
— Desiderius Erasmus
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Like heterosexuality, faith in immaterial realities is popularly considered essential to individual morality.
— Wendy Kaminer
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It was tremendously exciting to discover that science was not destroying religion, as people popularly believe, but that it could cast light…
— Susan Howatch
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Poets are accepted in Canada as practically nowhere else in the West because of their place in an officially supported and popularly…
— George Fetherling
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