Occupation: Philosopher Birth: July 6, 1946
People may hope that the meat they buy came from an animal who died without pain, but they do not really want to know about it. Yet those who, by the….
Ancient recipients of instant news probably couldn't do very much about it, for instance. Xerxes would still need three months to get his army togeth….
I would not question the sincerity of vegetarians who take little interest in Animal Liberation because they give priority to other causes; but when ….
Personal purity isn’t really the issue. Not supporting animal abuse – and persuading others not to support it – is..
If we ever do find a better system, I'll be happy to call myself an anti-capitalist..
Torturing a human being is almost always wrong, but it is not absolutely wrong..
At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn't m….
Marx saw that capitalism is a wasteful, irrational system, a system which controls us when we should be controlling it. That insight is still valid; ….
The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world..
Human social institutions can effect the course of human evolution. Just as climate, food supply, predators, and other natural forces of selection ha….
What you could say, and what I do argue in the book, is that he doesn't have as much concern for the lives of Iraqis as he does for the lives of Amer….
To turn the other cheek is to teach would-be cheats that cheating pays..
If we compare a severely defective human infant with a nonhuman animal, a dog or a pig, for example, we will often find the nonhuman to have superior….
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, ….
We need to learn how to capture and kill wild fish humanely - or, if that is not possible, to find less cruel and more sustainable alternatives to ea….
The animal liberation movement is saying that where animals and humans have similar interests - we might take the interest in avoiding physical pain ….
For most humans, especially for those in modern urban and suburban communities, the most direct form of contact with nonhuman animals is at meal time….
The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to each other in new ways, posing questions about how w….
Habits of thought lead us to brush aside descriptions of cruelty to animals as emotional, for "animal-lovers only"; or if not that, then anyway the p….
There is no humane slaughter requirement for wild fish caught and killed at sea, nor, in most places, for farmed fish..
My major concern about leaving enhancement to the marketplace is that then the rich will be able to buy themselves genetically superior children and ….