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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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Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting…
— E. M. Forster
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Curse the blasted, jelly-boned swines, the slimy, the belly-wriggling invertebrates, the miserable soddingrotters, the flaming sods, the sniveling, dribbling, dithering, palsied, pulse-less…
— D. H. Lawrence
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The human animal began as a mere wriggling thing in the ancient seas, struggling out onto land with many regrets. That is…
— Sebastian Barry
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Both Marx and Nietzsche understood that moral outrage is the last resort of the powerless. That is why Marx refused to issue…
— Robert Paul Wolff
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Indeed Christianity passes. Passes - it has gone! It has littered the beaches of life with churches, cathedrals, shrines and crucifixes, prejudices…
— H.G. Wells
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Even when I was a grown woman, he [Father] would leave me on the edge of hysteria in all our arguments: though…
— Maureen Howard
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So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ideas wriggling, struggling to get free, like…
— Ted Nelson
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When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.
— Anne Lamott
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Greatness exists like an ocean within you. Why do you want to act like a fish out of water, wriggling on the…
— Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
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When I was a child, my father used to take me for walks, often along a river or by the sea. We…
— Peter Singer
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Failure or success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting…
— EM Forster
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