"I would like us to think about it……" — Peter Singer
"I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather to reflect on it, and be more open about the fact that something is an ethical issues and think what we ought to do about it."
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198 Quotes by Peter Singer
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Becoming a vegetarian is not merely a symbolic gesture. Nor is it an attempt to isolate oneself from the ugly…
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The problem is not with the athletes, but with us. No matter how blatant the drug use may be, we…
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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…
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If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter…
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Pain is pain, and the importance of preventing unnecessary pain and suffering does not diminish because the being that suffers…
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People tend to care about dogs because they generally have more experience with dogs as companions; but other animals are…
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There has been opposition to experimenting on animals for a long time. This opposition has made little headway because experimenters,…
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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…
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As for cages themselves, an ordinary citizen who kept dogs in similar conditions for their entire lives would risk prosecution…
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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…
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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…
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Should one break in and free the animals? That is illegal, but the obligation to obey the law is not…
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More Ethical Quotes
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WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical.
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If I pick up a book with vampires on the cover, I want there to be vampires. If I pick…
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The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
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The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.
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No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning…
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A country should be defended not by arms, but by ethical behavior.
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Stem cell research must be carried out in an ethical manner in a way that respects the sanctity of human…
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The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course,…
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Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace,…
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Those of us who believe in God and derive our sense of right and wrong and ethics from God's Word…
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I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our…
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Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human…
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