Herbert Spencer is little read now. Philosophers do not regard him as a major thinker. Social Darwinism has long been in disrepute..

Killing a defective infant is not morally equivalent to killing a person. Sometimes it is not wrong at all..

Sometimes we know the best thing to do, but fail to do it. New year's resolutions are often like that. We make resolutions because we know it would b….

To give preference to the life of a being simply because that being is a member of our species would put us in the same position as racists who give ….

...chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans are thinking, self-aware beings, capable of planning ahead, who form lasting social bonds with othe….

It's also much clearer how much damage the occupation of Iraq is doing to America's reputation and prestige around the world; and that's just startin….

Typically, defenders of experiments on animals do not deny that animals suffer. They cannot deny the animals' suffering, because they need to stress ….

Well the real concept of basic needs if you cut it right down are simply the physical needs that are unavoidable for all of us. So to have enough cal….

Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong for our rati….

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….

If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally….

My view is different from this, only to the extent that if a decision is taken, by the parents and doctors, that it is better that a baby should die,….

The belief that the animals exist because God created them - and that he created them so we can better meet our needs - is contrary to our scientific….

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..

It is an indication of the extent to which people are now isolated from the animals they eat that children brought up on storybooks that lead them to….

Human beings are social animals. We were social before we were human..

My aim is to advocate that we make this mental switch in respect of our attitudes and practices towards a very large group of beings: members of spec….

The core of ethics runs deep in our species and is common to human beings everywhere. It survives the most appalling hardships and the most ruthless ….

Even people who are aware that the traditional family farm has been taken over by big business interests, and that some questionable experiments go o….

Egoism... is not eliminated by economic reorganization or by material abundance. When basic needs are satisfied, new 'needs' emerge. In our society, ….

The traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, technological and demographic developments..