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Human beings are social animals. We were social before we were human.

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Peter Singer
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: July 6
Philosopher
Politician
Professor
Writer
Melbourne
Australia
Peter Albert David Singer
Peter A. D. Singer
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Human
Humans
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I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.
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I do not believe that it could never be justifiable to experiment on a brain-damaged human.
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Marx saw that capitalism is a wasteful, irrational system, a system which controls us when we should be controlling it. That insight is still valid but we can now see that the construction of a free and equal society is a more difficult task than Marx realized.
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Killing a defective infant is not morally equivalent to killing a person. Sometimes it is not wrong at all.
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If you go back in time you'll find tribes that were essentially only concerned with their own tribal members. If you were a member of another tribe, you could be killed with impunity.
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There can be no brotherhood when some nations indulge in previously unheard of luxuries, while others struggle to stave off famine.
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If we're going to live an ethical life, it's not enough just to follow the thou-shalt-nots. … If we have enough, we have to share some of that with people who have so little.
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All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering, the animals are our equals.
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Torturing a human being is almost always wrong, but it is not absolutely wrong.
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Putting the AR movement directly in opposition to the environmental movement, which should be our natural allies in fighting human arrogance and domination of the planet.
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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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If they [animals] were really to get the equal consideration that I believe they should, we wouldn't have commercial animal production in this country.
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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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Sci-fi is often a metaphor. I think it's more the themes and questions that science fiction raises rather than the exact predictions that should guide us.
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So why don't we make ourselves the last generation on earth? If we would all agree to have ourselves sterilized then no sacrifices would be required - we could party our way into extinction!
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There is a growing movement called effective altruism. It's important because it combines both the heart and the head.
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We should give the same respect to the lives of animals as we do to the lives of humans.
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Why...is the hunter who shoots a deer for venison subject to more criticism than the person who buys a ham at the supermarket? Overall, it is probably the intensively reared pig who has suffered more.
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Of all the arguments against voluntary euthanasia, the most influential is the slippery slope: once we allow doctors to kill patients, we will not be able to limit the killing to those who want to die.
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To turn the other cheek is to teach would-be cheats that cheating pays.
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