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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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...chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans are thinking, self-aware beings, capable of planning ahead, who form lasting social bonds with others and have…
— Peter Singer
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We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character,…
— Arthur Ashe
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We must abandon the unworkable notion that it is morally reprehensible for some countries to pursue weapons of mass destruction, yet morally…
— Mohamed ElBaradei
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The leader is a person who has the possibility through destiny to know the people, to recognize their capacities, and to bring…
— Arthur Zajonc
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That Francis Bacon retains his reputation gained, is not strange to any that knows him. The unusual words wherewith he had spangled…
— Edward Coke
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Many things they sawe with us as mathematicall instruments, sea compasses... spring clocks that seemed to goe of themselves - and many…
— Unknown Author
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We all know well that we can do things for others and in the process crush them, making them feel that they…
— Jean Vanier
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The anniversary of Hiroshima, should be a day of somber reflection, not only on the terrible events of that day in 1945,…
— Noam Chomsky
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The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their way, and must compensate…
— Eric Hoffer
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Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities.
— Robert South
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Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is…
— Norman Douglas
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All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities…
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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