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Torturing a human being is almost always wrong, but it is not absolutely wrong.

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Peter Singer
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: July 6
Philosopher
Politician
Professor
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Melbourne
Australia
Peter Albert David Singer
Peter A. D. Singer
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History is not going to look kindly on us if we just keep our head in the sand on armed autonomous robotics issue because it sounds too science fiction.
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I think ethics is always there it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics.
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I'm a Utilitarian, so I don't see the rule against lying as absolute it's always subject to some overriding utility which may prevent its exercise.
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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 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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If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it.
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The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of course I was not reassured by that, but I couldn't prove that that was wrong so we're clearer about that.
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Every profession will have its rogues, of course, no matter what oaths are sworn, but many health care professionals have a real commitment to serving the best interests of their clients.
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Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics.
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Herbert Spencer is little read now. Philosophers do not regard him as a major thinker. Social Darwinism has long been in disrepute.
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Knowing that we can control our own behaviour makes it more likely that we will.
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