The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval.
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Britain has to decide whether it's trying to influence the individual or influence the environment that has allowed this radicalism to exist. The key to success is changing the environment to make radical Islam completely unacceptable. . . . It's not just draining the swamp. You have to poison the sea.Peter Singer
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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More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency.
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This kind of visit is oversold you would not have a shift in the public opinion. It's a one day story.
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Then I think the sense of it being one community breaks down; but if you know instantly and respond within twenty-four hours, it's a very different sort of situation.
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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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