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In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised; my position doesn't isn't unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts.

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.

Bush sees the evil as out there in the wider world, residing in people who 'hate freedom'. Look at his immediate response to the pictures of prisoner abuse; this is not what Americans do, these are not our values.

I'm a Utilitarian, so I don't see the rule against lying as absolute; it's always subject to some overriding utility which may prevent its exercise.

If we are concerned about the exploitation of human workers in countries with low standards of worker protection, we should also be concerned about the treatment of even more defenceless non-human animals.

If you go back in time you'll find tribes that were essentially only concerned with their own tribal members. If you were a member of another tribe, you could be killed with impunity.

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.

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

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, because it has made it impossible for Congress to reduce the corrupting influence of money on American political life.

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 ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics.

I don't think nationalism is alone holding the field; it's in contention with a lot of different things.

If governments did not mislead their citizens so often, there would be less need for secrecy, and if leaders knew they could not rely on keeping the public in the dark about what they are doing, they would have a powerful incentive to behave better.

I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics.

I am not saying that factory farming is the same as the Holocaust or the slave trade, but it's clear that there is an immense amount of suffering in it, and just as we think that the Nazis were wrong to ignore the suffering of their victims, so we are wrong to ignore the sufferings of our victims.

At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn't mean that you can't think of overarching ethical principles you would want people to follow in all kinds of places.

We have a new generation of very rich people who want to do more with their money than buy a lot of expensive toys. They want to live meaningful lives.

Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written.

Grain that is used to feed animals that end up on our tables as turkeys and hams could have gone to feed starving people.

Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing.

Knowing that we can control our own behaviour makes it more likely that we will.

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