Occupation: Philosopher Birth: July 6, 1946
Once we ask why it should be that all human beings - including infants, the intellectually disabled, criminal psychopaths, Hitler, Stalin, and the re….
When children see animals in a circus, they learn that animals exist for our amusement. Quite apart from the cruelty involved in training and confini….
Do business managers have a commitment to anything more than the success of their company and to making money? It would be hard to say that they do. ….
Charitable giving is a huge sector in the United States. It amounts to $350 billion a year. And yet, I can't help feeling that a lot of that is waste….
Nineteen thousand children [are] dying every day. Does it really matter that we're not walking past them in the street? Does it really matter that th….
No consideration at all is given to the interests of the "pests" - the very word "pest" seems to exclude any concern for the animals themselves. But ….
As we realize that more and more things have global impact, I think we're going to get people increasingly wanting to get away from a purely national….
Of those who die from avoidable, poverty-related causes, nearly 10 million, according to UNICEF, are children under five. They die from diseases such….
If we are concerned about the exploitation of human workers in countries with low standards of worker protection, we should also be concerned about t….
I believe that nationalism is a very strong force, but there are other forces operating; there are tendencies pushing towards a larger picture, espec….
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….
Effective altruism is the form of altruism in which we bring our rational capacities to bear in order to do the most good that we can..
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….
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 ….
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….
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….
Killing a defective infant is not morally equivalent to killing a person. Sometimes it is not wrong at all..
The hope of internet anarchists was that repressive governments would have only two options: accept the internet with its limitless possibilities of ….
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….
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 ….