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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. ↗

— Peter Singer

#close #devise #digital #genome #human

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. ↗

— Peter Singer

#back #concerned #could #essentially #find

If you're buying animal products and can go to the farm and actually see how the animals are looked after, yes, that's an important point. That's definitely the best way of assuring yourself that the animals are being well treated. ↗

— Peter Singer

#after #animal #animal products #assuring #being

More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency. ↗

— Peter Singer

#compromise #ethics #expediency #more #often

In a situation where many national leaders do the same thing and look out for national interests, and with an issue like global warming, you're likely to get no solution, so I think you have to have some kind of ethical trump on some of those issues. ↗

— Peter Singer

#get #global #global warming #i #i think

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. ↗

— Peter Singer

#contexts #different #everyone #i #i think

It means that, in fact, it's - whether fascist is the right word I don't know - more of a plutocracy than anything resembling a democracy; it has become a nation controlled by a very small, very wealthy elite. ↗

— Peter Singer

#become #controlled #democracy #elite #fact

My work is based on the assumption that clarity and consistency in our moral thinking is likely, in the long run, to lead us to hold better views on ethical issues. ↗

— Peter Singer

#based #better #clarity #consistency #ethical

Of those who die from avoidable, poverty-related causes, nearly 10 million, according to UNICEF, are children under five. They die from diseases such as measles, diarrhoea, and malaria that are easy and inexpensive to treat or prevent. ↗

— Peter Singer

#causes #children #die #diseases #easy

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

— Peter Singer

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