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Peter Albert David Singer (55)

Birth:	6th July, 1946
Nationality:	Australian
Profession:	Philosopher, Professor

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• 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.

  Peter Albert David Singer

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• I don’t understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It’s a pretty gross interference with nature.

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• I honestly don’t know, but if America continues to refuse to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, I see a bleak future not only for American society, but for the world as a whole. This is a global problem that is not going away, and the United States is an obstacle to solving it.

  Peter Albert David Singer

  Topics in America, Future, Society

• 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.

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• 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.

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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.

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  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.

   

  Peter Albert David Singer

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

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• For example, one way of giving yourself a strong incentive to reach your goal is to commit to pay money to someone if you fail. Better yet, you can specify that you will have to pay a certain sum to a cause that you detest.

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• Every profession will have its rogues, of course, no matter what oaths are sworn, but many health care professionals have a real commitment to serving the best interests of their clients.

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• Dolphins are social mammals, capable of enjoying their lives. They form close bonds with other members of their group.

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• Do business managers have a commitment to anything more than the success of their company and to making money? It would be hard to say that they do. Indeed, many business leaders deny that there is any conflict between self-interest and the interests of all.

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• 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 who are likely to die if we don’t increase the amount of aid we are giving.

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• But I think the majority of cows, and even more so chickens and pigs, are leading pretty miserable lives.

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

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• Animals, or at least those who are conscious and capable of suffering or enjoying their lives, are not things for us to use in whatever way we find convenient.

  Peter Albert David Singer

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• What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it.

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• 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.

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• That’s a central part of philosophy, of ethics. What do I owe to strangers? What do I owe to my family? What is it to live a good life? Those are questions which we face as individuals.

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• The belief that the animals exist because God created them – and that he created them so we can better meet our needs – is contrary to our scientific understanding of evolution and, of course, to the fossil record, which shows the existence of non-human primates and other animals millions of years before there were any human beings at all.

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