If you earn a lot of money, you can give away a lot of money..

There is a growing movement called effective altruism. It's important because it combines both the heart and the head..

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 s….

One thing is certain: you will find plenty of worthwhile things to do. You will not be bored, or lack fulfillment in your life. Most important of all….

Pain and suffering are in themselves bad and should be prevented or minimized, irrespective of the race, sex, or species of the being that suffers. H….

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

It is a mistake to assume that the law should always enforce morality..

We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet- for the sake of hamburgers.

Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics..

Human social institutions can effect the course of human evolution. Just as climate, food supply, predators, and other natural forces of selection ha….

Evolution has no moral direction. An evolutionary understanding of human nature can explain the differing intuitions we have when we are faced with a….

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..

There is an obvious evolutionary explanation for the scarcity of altruistic saints: Without a strong predilection for their own interests, our ancest….

To be a utilitarian means that you judge actions as right or wrong in accordance with whether they have good consequences. So you try to do what will….

Unfortunately for ethical egoism, the claim that we will all be better off if every one of us does what is in his or her own interest is incorrect. T….

Somebody who eats twice as much factory-farmed products as he or she needs to is clearly doing twice as much damage to the planet. From a utilitarian….

Even in the era of AIDS, sex raises no unique moral issues at all. Decisions about sex may involve considerations about honesty, concern for others, ….

Every profession will have its rogues, of course, no matter what oaths are sworn, but many health care professionals have a real commitment to servin….

The animal liberation movement is saying that where animals and humans have similar interests - we might take the interest in avoiding physical pain ….

It is now generally accepted that the roots of our ethics lie in patterns of behavior that evolved among our pre-human ancestors, the social mammals ….

If possessing a higher degree of intelligence does not entitle one human to use another for his or her own ends, how can it entitle humans to exploit….