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Some Quotes by Peter Singer
- If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter what the nature of the…
- As for cages themselves, an ordinary citizen who kept dogs in similar conditions for their entire lives would risk prosecution for cruelty. A pig producer…
- ...chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans are thinking, self-aware beings, capable of planning ahead, who form lasting social bonds with others and have a rich social…
- Even people who are aware that the traditional family farm has been taken over by big business interests, and that some questionable experiments go on…
- Once we ask why it should be that all human beings - including infants, the intellectually disabled, criminal psychopaths, Hitler, Stalin, and the rest -…
- Surely there will be some nonhuman animals whose lives, by any standards, are more valuable than the lives of some humans.
- Suppose I grant that pigs and dogs are self-aware to some degree, and do have thoughts about things in the future. That would provide some…
- There are some circumstances, for example, where the newborn baby is severely disabled and where the parents think that it's better that child should not…
- If we're going to live an ethical life, it's not enough just to follow the thou-shalt-nots. … If we have enough, we have to share…
- Typically, defenders of experiments on animals do not deny that animals suffer. They cannot deny the animals' suffering, because they need to stress the similarities…
- I don't think there's much point in bemoaning the state of the world unless there's some way you can think of to improve it. Otherwise,…
- I'm a Utilitarian, so I don't see the rule against lying as absolute; it's always subject to some overriding utility which may prevent its exercise.
- I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small…
- I suppose what's happened recently has confirmed suspicions I voiced in the book, and I think made clearer some of those things that I point…
- In a situation where many national leaders do the same thing and look out for national interests, and with an issue like global warming, you're…
- So, basically, my view is I don't want to support the exploitation of animals, and within reason, I will do what I can to avoid…
- The idea that we can actually have an impact on places more or less instantly, too, by responding in some way or not responding, I…
- For a long time, rich countries have promised to reduce poverty but have failed to match their words with adequate action. Of course, some important…
- When New Orleans was flooded in August 2005, the rising water cut off Memorial Medical Centre, a community hospital that was holding more than 200…
- They tend to be pretty abstract ones then, like doing what will have the best consequences; obviously you wouldn't specify what consequences are best, they…
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