Peter Singer Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• Suppose I grant that pigs and dogs are self-aware to some degree, and do have thoughts about things in the future. That would provide some reason for thinking it intrinsically wrong to kill them - not absolutely wrong, but perhaps quite a serious wrong. Still, there are other animals - chickens maybe, or fish - who can feel pain but don't have any self-awareness or capacity for thinking about the future. For those animals, you haven't given me any reason why painless killing would be wrong, if other animals take their place and lead an equally good life.

  Peter Singer

  Dog, Pain, Good Life

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• There could conceivably be circumstances in which an experiment on an animal stands to reduce suffering so much that it would be permissible to carry it out even if it involved harm to the animal... [even if] the animal were a human being.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Suffering, Would Be

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• ...los experimentos propuestos por la Fuerza Aérea y el Ejército se diseñaron para que muchos animales sufrieran y murieran sin ninguna certeza de que este sufrimiento y esta muerte salvaran una sola vida humana o beneficiaran a los humanos de alguna manera; pero lo mismo puede decirse de millones de sus experimentos realizados cada año sólo en Estados Unidos.

  Peter Singer

  Army, Animal, Years

  Peter Singer (1975). "La liberación animal: una nueva ética para nuestro trato con los animales".

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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.

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  Views, Talking, Ethics

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• Los periódicos no lo hacen mucho mejor. Su cobertura de los animales no humanos está dominada por acontecimientos de "interés humano", como el nacimiento de un bebé gorila en el zoo, o por amenazas a especies en peligro de extinción; pero no se informa de los avances en las técnicas de cría que privan a millones de animales de libertad de movimientos.

  Peter Singer

  Baby, Zoos, Animal

  Peter Singer (1975). "La liberación animal: una nueva ética para nuestro trato con los animales".

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• Cheats prosper until there are enough who bear grudges against them to make sure they do not prosper.

  Peter Singer

  Cheating, Bears, Grudge

  Peter Singer (1982). “The expanding circle: ethics and sociobiology”, Plume

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• Creo que en este nuevo mundo en el que vivimos, a menudo tenemos la responsabilidad, ya sabes, de ir más allá del "no harás" -es decir, de no hacer daño a los demás- y decir que podemos ayudar a los demás y que deberíamos ayudar a los demás.

  Peter Singer

  Creer, Responsabilidad, Ayudar a los demás

  "Bioethics professor Peter Singer". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 15, 2010.

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• Evolution has no moral direction. An evolutionary understanding of human nature can explain the differing intuitions we have when we are faced with an individual rather than with a mass of people, or with people close to us rather than with those far away, but it does not justify those feelings.

  Peter Singer

  People, Understanding, Feelings

  Peter Singer (2010). “The Life You Can Save: How to play your part in ending world poverty”, p.61, Pan Macmillan

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• I can tell you that too much money is corrupting American politics. Don't blame the American public. The U.S. Supreme Court has a lot to answer for, because it has made it impossible for Congress to reduce the corrupting influence of money on American political life.

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  Political, Answers, Too Much

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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.

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  Winning, Rights, Class

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

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• There is no humane slaughter requirement for wild fish caught and killed at sea, nor, in most places, for farmed fish.

  Peter Singer

  Sea, Requirements, Caught

  Peter Singer (2016). “Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter”, p.44, Princeton University Press

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• La nueva libertad de expresión que aporta Internet va mucho más allá de la política. La gente se relaciona entre sí de nuevas maneras, lo que plantea interrogantes sobre cómo debemos responder a las personas cuando todo lo que sabemos de ellas es lo que hemos aprendido a través de un medio que permite todo tipo de anonimato y engaño.

  Peter Singer

  Expression, People, Deception

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

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• At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn't mean that you can't think of overarching ethical principles you would want people to follow in all kinds of places.

  Peter Singer

  Mean, Thinking, Ethical Principles

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• Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong for our rational, long-term planning.

  Peter Singer

  Strong, Yield, Long

  "How to stop yourself breaking that new year's resolution" by Peter Singer, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2011.

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• In some parts of the world, what you are doing is already apparent.According to the World Health Organization, the warming of the planet caused an additional 140,000 deaths in 2004, as compared with the number of deaths there would have been had average global temperatures remained as they were during the period 1961 to 1990. This means that climate change is already causing, every week, as many deaths as occured in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.

  Peter Singer

  Mean, Average, Organization

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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.

  Peter Singer

  Fighting, Arrogance, Environmental

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• Probability is the guide of life, and of death, too.

  Peter Singer

  Guides, Probability

  Peter Singer (2011). “Practical Ethics”, p.173, Cambridge University Press

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• Lay off with the 'You reason, so you don't feel' stuff, please. I feel, but I also think about what I feel. When people say we should only feel I am reminded of Göring, who said 'I think with my blood.' See where it led him.

  Peter Singer

  Pensamiento, Sangre, Gente

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• Si alguna vez encontramos un sistema mejor, estaré encantado de llamarme anticapitalista.

  Peter Singer

  Basic Needs, Capitalist, Ifs

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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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• No creo que el nacionalismo esté solo en el campo de batalla; compite con muchas cosas diferentes.

  Peter Singer

  Thinking, Different, Fields

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• El capitalismo dista mucho de ser un sistema perfecto, pero hasta ahora no hemos encontrado nada que satisfaga mejor las necesidades humanas que una economía capitalista regulada y un sistema de asistencia social y sanitaria que cubra las necesidades básicas de quienes no prosperan en la economía capitalista. Si alguna vez encontramos un sistema mejor, estaré encantado de llamarme anticapitalista.

  Peter Singer

  Jobs, Capitalist Economy, Perfect

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• That's a central part of philosophy, of ethics. What do I owe to strangers? What do I owe to my family? What is it to live a good life? Those are questions which we face as individuals.

  Peter Singer

  Good Life, Philosophy, Faces

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• But I think the majority of cows, and even more so chickens and pigs, are leading pretty miserable lives.

  Peter Singer

  Thinking, Pigs, Majority

  "Chew the Right Thing". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. May 3, 2006.

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