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Peter Singer Quotes

Australian - Philosopher | July 6, 1946 -

I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics.

Ethics Think Thoughtful Always Very

When I was a child, my father used to take me for walks, often along a river or by the sea. We would pass people fishing, perhaps reeling in their lines with struggling fish hooked at the end of them. Once I saw a man take a small fish out of a bucket and impale it, still wriggling, on an empty hook to use as bait.

Father Sea Fishing Man Child River

So I think ethics is the broader thing that's less focused on prohibitions and is more perhaps looking at principles and questions and ideas about how to live your life.

Life Live Ethics Ideas Looking More

Can we really believe that we are living a good life, an ethically decent life if we don't do anything serious to help reduce poverty around the world and help save the lives of children or adults who are likely to die if we don't increase the amount of aid we are giving.

Life Good Children World Believe

Of those who die from avoidable, poverty-related causes, nearly 10 million, according to UNICEF, are children under five. They die from diseases such as measles, diarrhoea, and malaria that are easy and inexpensive to treat or prevent.

Children Treat Die Easy Who Million

Dolphins are social mammals, capable of enjoying their lives. They form close bonds with other members of their group.

Group Capable Dolphins Social Close

Well the real concept of basic needs if you cut it right down are simply the physical needs that are unavoidable for all of us. So to have enough calories to keep our bodies going. Have shelter from extreme elements. To have water that is safe to drink, So I think that's the core of it.

Water Think Enough You Down Drink

The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval.

Life Just Because Human Human Life

Grain that is used to feed animals that end up on our tables as turkeys and hams could have gone to feed starving people.

People End Animals Up Gone Used

There is no excuse for keeping wild animals in amusement parks or circuses. Until our governments take action, we should avoid supporting places where captive wild animals perform for our amusement. If the public will not pay to see them, the businesses that profit from keeping animals captive will not be able to continue.

Action Profit Animals Will Wild See

Many European countries, as well as Australia, Canada, Israel, and New Zealand, have adopted legislation that creates a 'public lending right', where the government recognises that enabling hundreds of people to read a single copy of a book provides a public good, but that doing so is likely to reduce sales of the book.

Good Government People Book Doing

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.

Man Moon Library Human Digital Able

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