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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 worked-out rules on…
- Even in the era of AIDS, sex raises no unique moral issues at all. Decisions about sex may involve considerations about honesty, concern for others,…
- My view is different from this, only to the extent that if a decision is taken, by the parents and doctors, that it is better…
- When the death of a disabled infant will lead to the birth of another infant with better prospects of a happy life, the total amount…
- The traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, technological and demographic developments.
- All the particular moral judgments we intuitively make are likely to derive from discarded religious systems, from warped views of sex and bodily functions, or…
- It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves. It is more difficult to distance ourselves…
- My work is based on the assumption that clarity and consistency in our moral thinking is likely, in the long run, to lead us to…
- 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…
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- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- One should never impose one's views on a problem; one should rather study it, and in time a solution will reveal itself. — Albert Einstein
- I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously… — Abigail Adams
- As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in… — Bono
- I think in the end there are only 20 or 30 tenets of basic cooking. It's going at perhaps the same issue… — Alton Brown
- A citizen at his home in Rockford, Illinois, or Boulder, Colorado, could read a newspaper, listen to a radio, or watch the… — Jeff Greenfield
- The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely… — Rowan Atkinson
- We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that's what's happening. Too many people there. They can't support themselves - and… — David Attenborough