Torturing a human being is almost always wrong, but it is not absolute…

Peter Singer
148 citations
Torturing a human being is almost always wrong, but it is not absolutely wrong. ✨ Peter Singer (1975). Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals
Humanity
33

More Author Quotes

The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world. ✨ The unknown promise of internet freedom. www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2010.
Can we really believe that we are living a good life, an ethically decent life if we don't do anything serious to help reduce poverty around the world and help save the lives of children or adults wh … ▶
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.
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 starting now to hit home in the United States.
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 world's greatest libraries - indeed, in most resp … ▶

Torturing a human being is almost always wrong, but it is not absolutely wrong. ✨ Peter Singer (1975). Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes