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Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics.

Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics.

Peter Singer
Animal, Ethics, Vegetarian
Jim Mason, Peter Singer (1980). “Animal Factories”, Crown

Ethics is inescapable.

Peter Singer
Ethics
Peter Singer (2011). “The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress”, p.15, Princeton University Press

I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics.

Peter Singer
Mean, Thinking, Ethics

We see things like reciprocity which are fairly central to our view of ethics. But if you're talking about a set of worked-out rules on what we are supposed to do then, yes, it is a human product.

Peter Singer
Views, Talking, Ethics

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

Peter Singer
Ethics, Compromise, Expediency

The principles of ethics come from our own nature as social, reasoning beings.

Peter Singer
Principles, Ethics, Social
Peter Singer (2011). “The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress”, p.149, Princeton University Press

Ethics seems a morass which we have to cross, but get hopelessly bogged in when we make the attempt.

Peter Singer
Ethics, Crosses, Seems
Peter Singer (1982). “The expanding circle: ethics and sociobiology”, Plume

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