"It is easy for us to criticize the……" — Peter Singer
"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 from our own views, so that we can dispassionately search for prejudices among the beliefs and values we hold"
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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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I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics,…
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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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