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Peter Singer Quotes: I'm a Utilitarian, so I don't see the rule against lying as absolute; it's always subject to some overriding utility which may prevent its exercise.
         

I'm a Utilitarian, so I don't see the rule against lying as absolute; it's always subject to some overriding utility which may prevent its exercise.


Peter Singer
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If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it.



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Killing a defective infant is not morally equivalent to killing a person. Sometimes it is not wrong at all.



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



Those who purchase meat, fur, and leather have no right to be shielded from the sights and sounds of the slaughterhouses from which these products were produced.

Those who purchase meat, fur, and leather have no right to be shielded from the sights and sounds of the slaughterhouses from which these products were produced.



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Of course, infanticide needs to be strictly legally controlled and rare - but it should not be ruled out, any more than abortion.





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