Occupation: Philosopher Birth: July 6, 1946
When you look at food as an ethical issue in the Christian tradition, you don't find very much about it. You don't find, as you do in the Jewish or I….
My work is based on the assumption that clarity and consistency in our moral thinking is likely, in the long run, to lead us to hold better views on ….
If you earn a lot of money, you can give away a lot of money..
Typically, defenders of experiments on animals do not deny that animals suffer. They cannot deny the animals' suffering, because they need to stress ….
I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature. I think it ought to be….
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….
Killing a defective infant is not morally equivalent to killing a person. Sometimes it is not wrong at all..
What is there about the notion of a person, at law, that makes every living member of the species Homo sapiens a person, irrespective of their mental….
It is a mistake to assume that the law should always enforce morality..
Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing..
If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter what the nature of the being….
The most callous, stupid things were done just because regulations required them...It was not until 1983, for example, that U.S. federal agencies sta….
If we are prepared to take the life of another being merely in order to satisfy our taste for a particular type of food, then that being is no more t….
I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics..
The hope of internet anarchists was that repressive governments would have only two options: accept the internet with its limitless possibilities of ….
Remember that not everyone is as strong as you are. Be mindful of human weakness, and of the fact that it may be more important, in the long run, to ….
My fear is that that's what's going to happen with robotics and the military. Importantly, this discussion has to involve not just the scientists, bu….
I can tell you that too much money is corrupting American politics. Don't blame the American public. The U.S. Supreme Court has a lot to answer for, ….
Racists violate the principle of equality by giving greater weight to the interests of members of their own race when there is a clash between their ….
So far as this argument is concerned nonhuman animals and infants and retarded humans are in the same category; and if we use this argument to justif….
Herbert Spencer is little read now. Philosophers do not regard him as a major thinker. Social Darwinism has long been in disrepute..