It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, fro…

Peter Singer
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It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves. It is more difficult to distance ourselves from our own views, so that we can dispassionately search for prejudices among the beliefs and values we hold ✨ Peter Singer (1993). Practical Ethics, p.56, Cambridge University Press
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