animal welfare 7
- Only selfish privilege stops us extending equal consideration to other species
- Human treatment of nonhuman animals is a tyranny
Peter Singer
Australian moral philosopher, Professor of Bioethics emeritus at Princeton University; author of Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics and The Life You Can Save.
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What Peter Singer says most about
capitalism 3
- Capitalism increases inequality and does serious harm in places, yet it has lifted hundreds of millions out of extreme poverty and no alternative has been shown to do better at comparable scale.
- Giving away almost none of a company's profit is a social norm, and norms can change.
education 3
- Directing more education aid to higher education than to primary education is difficult to justify if the aim is to do the most good with limited resources.
- Nine in ten children in the world's poorest countries being unable to read a simple sentence at age ten is not an inevitable consequence of poverty.
agency 2
- If you can prevent something bad without sacrificing anything nearly as important, it is wrong not to
- People in wealthy countries can save lives every day by giving to cost-effective charities