Peter Singer Quotes - Page 6

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• Without in any way minimising the economic and psychological blow that people experience when they lose their jobs, the unemployed in affluent countries still have a safety net, in the form of social security payments, and usually free healthcare and free education for their children. They also have sanitation and safe drinking water.

  Peter Singer

  Country, Jobs, Children

  "Tackling poverty in hard times" by Peter Singer, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2009.

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• We need to learn how to capture and kill wild fish humanely - or, if that is not possible, to find less cruel and more sustainable alternatives to eating them.

  Peter Singer

  Needs, Alternatives, Eating

  Peter Singer (2016). “Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter”, p.46, Princeton University Press

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• My work is based on the assumption that clarity and consistency in our moral thinking is likely, in the long run, to lead us to hold better views on ethical issues.

  Peter Singer

  Running, Thinking, Ethical Issues

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• The idea that we can actually have an impact on places more or less instantly, too, by responding in some way or not responding, I think, also makes it true.

  Peter Singer

  Thinking, Impact, Ideas

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• The hope of internet anarchists was that repressive governments would have only two options: accept the internet with its limitless possibilities of spreading information, or restrict internet access to the ruling elite and turn your back on the 21st century, as North Korea has done.

  Peter Singer

  Government, Korea, Internet Access

  "The unknown promise of internet freedom" by Peter Singer, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2010.

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• So, basically, my view is I don't want to support the exploitation of animals, and within reason, I will do what I can to avoid it, but it's not like it's a religion for me. It's not like I consider I'm polluted if somehow some bit of milk or cheese or something passes my lips.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Views, Support

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• It's also much clearer how much damage the occupation of Iraq is doing to America's reputation and prestige around the world; and that's just starting now to hit home in the United States.

  Peter Singer

  Home, Iraq, America

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• I suppose what's happened recently has confirmed suspicions I voiced in the book, and I think made clearer some of those things that I point out. For instance I have a section of the book where I talk about the possibility of torture.

  Peter Singer

  Book, Thinking, Possibility

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• I believe that nationalism is a very strong force, but there are other forces operating; there are tendencies pushing towards a larger picture, especially in Europe, I think; but I still think nationalism is real.

  Peter Singer

  Strong, Real, Believe

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• Had Rumsfeld said at any time 'get me a report on what's going on', he could have had it. You're right, it depends on choices that we make, which parts of the world we want to be in immediate contact with.

  Peter Singer

  Choices, World, Want

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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.

  Peter Singer

  Real, Commitment, Care

  "Putting ethics before profits" by Peter Singer, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2009.

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• I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics.

  Peter Singer

  Mean, Thinking, Ethics

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• If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library.

  Peter Singer

  Book, Reading, Moon

  Peter Singer (2016). “Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter”, p.300, Princeton University Press

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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 worked-out rules on what we are supposed to do then, yes, it is a human product.

  Peter Singer

  Views, Talking, 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 what the nature of the being, the principle of equality requires that its suffering be counted equally with the like suffering - insofar as rough comparisons can be made - of any other being. So the limit of sentience is the only defensible boundary of concern for the interests of others. To mark this boundary by some other characteristic like intelligence or rationality would be to mark it in an arbitrary manner. Why not choose some other characteristic, like skin color?

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Skin Color, Suffering

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• Habits of thought lead us to brush aside descriptions of cruelty to animals as emotional, for "animal-lovers only"; or if not that, then anyway the problem is so trivial in comparison to the problems of human beings that no sensible person could give it time and attention. This too is a prejudice - for how can one know that a problem is trivial until one has taken the time to examine its extent?

  Peter Singer

  Taken, Emotional, Animal

  Peter Singer (1975). “Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals”

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• More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency.

  Peter Singer

  Ethics, Compromise, Expediency

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• Pain and suffering are in themselves bad and should be prevented or minimized, irrespective of the race, sex, or species of the being that suffers. How bad a pain is depends on how intense it is and how long it lasts, but pain of the same intensity and duration are equally bad, whether felt by humans or animals.

  Peter Singer

  Sex, Pain, Animal

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• If penicillin had been judged by its toxicity to guinea pigs, it might never have been used by man.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Men, Pigs

  Peter Singer (1975). “Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals”

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• We ought to consider the interests of animals because they have interests and it is unjustifiable to exclude them from the sphere of moral concern; to make this consideration depend on beneficial consequences for human beings is to accept the implication that the interests of animals do not warrant consideration for their own sakes.

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  Animal, Sake, Spheres

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• Even people who are aware that the traditional family farm has been taken over by big business interests, and that some questionable experiments go on in laboratories, cling to a vague belief that conditions cannot be too bad, or else the government or the animal welfare societies would have done something about it.

  Peter Singer

  Taken, Animal, Government

  Peter Singer (1975). “Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals”

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• The newspapers do little better. Their coverage of nonhuman animals is dominated by "human interest" events like the birth of a baby gorilla at the zoo, or by threats to endangered species; but developments in farming techniques that deprive millions of animals of freedom of movement go unreported.

  Peter Singer

  Baby, Zoos, Animal

  Peter Singer (1975). “Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals”

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• ...the proposed air force and army experiments were designed so that many animals would suffer and die without any certainty that this suffering and death would save a single human life or benefit humans in any way at all; but the same can be said of millions of their experiments performed each year in the United States alone.

  Peter Singer

  Army, Animal, Years

  Peter Singer (1975). “Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals”

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• Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing.

  Peter Singer

  Nursing, Engineering, Law

  "Putting ethics before profits" by Peter Singer, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2009.

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• Whereas the property-owning middle class could win freedom for themselves on the basis of rights to property--thus excluding others from the freedom they gain--the property-less working class possess nothing but their title as human beings. Thus they can liberate themselves only by liberating all humanity.

  Peter Singer

  Winning, Rights, Class

  Peter Singer (2000). “Marx: A Very Short Introduction”, p.30, Oxford Paperbacks

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