Peter Singer Quotes About Animal Rights
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In appropriate circumstances we are justified in using humans to achieve goals (or the goal of assisting animals).
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An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable.
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Torturing a human being is almost always wrong, but it is not absolutely wrong.
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I do not believe that it could never be justifiable to experiment on a brain-damaged human.
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Surely there will be some nonhuman animals whose lives, by any standards, are more valuable than the lives of some humans.
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If possessing a higher degree of intelligence does not entitle one human to use another for his or her own ends, how can it entitle humans to exploit non-humans?
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The prescription of the equality of human beings is not a description of an alleged actual equality among humans: it is a prescription of how we should treat human beings.
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There could conceivably be circumstances in which an experiment on an animal stands to reduce suffering so much that it would be permissible to carry it out even if it involved harm to the animal... [even if] the animal were a human being.
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Christianity is our foe. If animal rights is to succeed, we must destroy the Judeo-Christian religious tradition.
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If they [animals] were really to get the equal consideration that I believe they should, we wouldn't have commercial animal production in this country.
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We are not especially 'interested in' animals. Neither of us had ever been inordinately fond of dogs, cats, or horses in the way that many people are. We didn't 'love' animals.
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All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering, the animals are our equals.
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