The capacity to reason is a special sort of capacity because it can lead us to places that we did not expect to go..

Of all the arguments against voluntary euthanasia, the most influential is the slippery slope: once we allow doctors to kill patients, we will not be….

Should one break in and free the animals? That is illegal, but the obligation to obey the law is not absolute. It was justifiably broken by those who….

Today, if you have an Internet connection, you have at your fingertips an amount of information previously available only to those with access to the….

The principles of ethics come from our own nature as social, reasoning beings..

More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency..

Will we rise to the challenge and prove our capacity for genuine altruism by ending our ruthless exploitation of the species in our power, not becaus….

If we're going to live an ethical life, it's not enough just to follow the thou-shalt-nots. … If we have enough, we have to share some of that with p….

Philosophy is not politics, and we do our best, within our all-too-human limitations, to seek the truth, not to score points against opponents. There….

Cheats prosper until there are enough who bear grudges against them to make sure they do not prosper..

Dolphins are social mammals, capable of enjoying their lives. They form close bonds with other members of their group..

The problem is not with the athletes, but with us. No matter how blatant the drug use may be, we don't stop watching the Tour de France. Maybe we sho….

History is not going to look kindly on us if we just keep our head in the sand on armed autonomous robotics issue because it sounds too science ficti….

We may feel the pain of falling back from a level of affluence to which we have grown accustomed, but most people in developed countries are still, b….

The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of course I was not reassured by that, but I couldn't ….

Beginning to reason is like stepping onto an escalator that leads upward and out of sight. Once we take the first step, the distance to be traveled i….

Torturing a human being is almost always wrong, but it is not absolutely wrong..

There is no humane slaughter requirement for wild fish caught and killed at sea, nor, in most places, for farmed fish..

We wait until Pandora's box is opened before we say, "Wow, maybe we should understand what's in that box." This is the story of humans on every probl….

...the proposed air force and army experiments were designed so that many animals would suffer and die without any certainty that this suffering and ….

The newspapers do little better. Their coverage of nonhuman animals is dominated by "human interest" events like the birth of a baby gorilla at the z….