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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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Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
— Henri Bergson
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The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by Homo Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes,…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Homo sapiens, the first truly free species, is about to decommission natural selection, the force that made us. Soon we must look…
— E. O. Wilson
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If I had my life to live over again I would not devote it to develop new industrial processes: I would try…
— Leo Baekeland
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There seems to me to be absolutely no limit to the inanity and credulity of the human race. Homo Sapiens! Homo idioticus!
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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What a curious picture it is to find man, homo sapiens, of divine origin, we are told, seriously considering going underground to…
— J. William Fulbright
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The disastrous history of our species indicates the futility of all attempts at a diagnosis which do not take into account the…
— Arthur Koestler
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We have come to look at our planet as a resource for our species, which is funny when you think that the…
— Marston Bates
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What is human and the same about the males and females classified as Homo sapiens is much greater than the differences.
— Estelle Ramey
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What is there about the notion of a person, at law, that makes every living member of the species Homo sapiens a…
— Peter Singer
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There are one hundred and ninety-three living species of monkeys and apes. One hundred and ninety-two of them are covered with hair.…
— Desmond Morris
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The extinction of Homo Sapiens would mean survival for millions, if not billions, of Earth-dwelling species. Phasing out the human race will…
— Ingrid Newkirk
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