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You might hold an ethical position that it's wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to keep them secret for practical reasons - to reduce casualties, perhaps - and someone asks you about those plans, you may need to lie for a 'good' outcome.

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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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Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written.

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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.

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If you're buying animal products and can go to the farm and actually see how the animals are looked after, yes, that's an important point. That's definitely the best way of assuring yourself that the animals are being well treated.

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

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I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.

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If we all think only of our own interests, we are headed for collective disaster - just look at what we are doing to our planet's climate.

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We recognize the chicken as another conscious being. It's different from us, but it has a life, and if something is really important for that chicken, if it would work hard to try to get it, and if we can give it without sacrificing something that's really important to us, then we should.

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If you go back in time you'll find tribes that were essentially only concerned with their own tribal members. If you were a member of another tribe, you could be killed with impunity.

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Biography

Nationality: Australian

Type: Philosopher

Born: July 6th, 1946

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