Quotes by Peter Singer, Practical Ethics

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Almost any established decision procedure is better than a resort to force; for when force is used, people get hurt and — Peter Singer, Practical Ethics
Our ancestors lived in groups of no more than a few hundred people, and those on the other side of a river or mountain r — Peter Singer, Practical Ethics
Arguments for preservation based on the beauty of wilderness are sometimes treated as if they were of little weight beca — Peter Singer, Practical Ethics
The capacity for suffering – or more strictly, for suffering and/or enjoyment or happiness – is not just another charact — Peter Singer, Practical Ethics
No doubt we instinctively prefer to help those who are close to us. Few could stand by and watch a child drown; many can — Peter Singer, Practical Ethics
First premise: If we can prevent something bad without sacrificing anything of comparable significance, we ought to do i — Peter Singer, Practical Ethics
At least ten times as many people died from preventable, poverty-related diseases on September 11, 2011, as died in the — Peter Singer, Practical Ethics
The merely conscious being does not have a preference for continued life. Perhaps while having a pleasurable experience — Peter Singer, Practical Ethics
For a merely conscious being, death is the cessation of experiences, in much the same way that birth is the beginning of — Peter Singer, Practical Ethics
It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves. It is more d — Peter Singer, Practical Ethics
It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves. It is more d — Peter Singer, Practical Ethics
Pacifists have usually regarded the use of violence as absolutely wrong, irrespective of its consequences. This, like ot — Peter Singer, Practical Ethics
A society that decides its controversial issues by ballots does better than one that uses bullets – which, after all, is — Peter Singer, Practical Ethics
In a democracy, we should be reluctant to take any action that amounts to an attempt to coerce the majority, for such at — Peter Singer, Practical Ethics
Laws and a settled decision procedure to generate them are a good thing. This gives us one important reason for obeying — Peter Singer, Practical Ethics
To give preference to the life of a being simply because that being is a member of our species would put us in the same — Peter Singer, Practical Ethics
We think of dogs as being more like people than pigs; but pigs are highly intelligent animals and if we kept pigs as pet — Peter Singer, Practical Ethics
Voluntary euthanasia occurs only when, to the best of medical knowledge, a person is suffering from an incurable and pai — Peter Singer, Practical Ethics
When we make ethical judgments, we must go beyond a personal or sectional point of view and take into account the intere — Peter Singer, Practical Ethics
For preference utilitarians, taking the life of a person will normally be worse than taking the life of some other being — Peter Singer, Practical Ethics