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Peter Singer - Living ethically

Transcript: “What living ethically is about, is about not just thinking about yourself, but putting yourself in the position of other beings who are affected by your action. Any tradition of ethical thinking, that starts to take if you like, a broader perspective, sometimes you could call it point of view of the universe, will start to realize that, “well, I’m just one being here among a lot of others. There’s nothing so special about me that somehow my sufferings are more important than your sufferings or anyone else’s sufferings of the people out there, or for that matter, of the animals.” Then we have to ask the question: “well, what’s so different about us?” I mean, admittedly we have capacities to reason and to use language that exceed any nonhuman animals, but, I mean that’s not enough, for me what’s crucial is that we share with them the capacity to suffer. Particularly the animals that we eat; the pigs and cows and chickens and so on, there’s no doubt they can feel pain, and there’s no doubt that they do feel pain in the way that we rear them and produce them. That’s why I don’t think we can ethically justify eating them. So I don’t think we can just sort of turn our heads and say, you know, “please don’t tell me about it.” I think it’s very often in our interests to have ethical standards and to live in accordance with them. That’s good for us in our relations with others because people respect us because of it and get to know it. It’s also good for us in terms of our sense of satisfaction and fulfilment with life.” Soundbite: Richard Dawkins Foundation of Reason and Science (   / richarddawkinsdotnet  ) ---------------------------------- Music: "E minor aeolian Backing Jam Track with Guitar Scale Chart Ambient" Brian Streckfus (   / @brianstreckfusguitar  ) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...