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Ideas of Peter Singer, by Text
[Australian, b.1946, Born in Australia. At Oxford University, and Monash University, and now a Professor in the United States.]
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p.3
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20276
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Conflict of rules might be avoided by greater complexity, or by a hierarchy of rules
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02
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p.21
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20277
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Equality of interests is a minimal principle, not implying equal treatment
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02
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p.22
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20278
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'Marginal utility' says something is more useful if it is in short supply
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02
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p.35
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20279
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Equality of opportunity unfairly rewards those lucky enough to have great ability
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03
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p.70
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20281
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Why should I do anything for posterity? What has posterity ever done for me?
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p.78
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20282
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The sanctity of a human life depends either on being of our species, or on being a person
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p.97
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20283
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Killing a chimp is worse than killing a human too defective to be a person
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p.120
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20284
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Why should a potential person have the rights of an actual person?
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p.141
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20285
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If a right entails having the relevant desire, many creatures might have no right to life
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09
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p.185
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20286
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Following an inner voice for morality is irresponsible in a rational agent
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09
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p.190
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20287
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If 49% of the population can be wrong, so can 51%
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p.197
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20288
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You can't condemn violent revolution without assessing the evils it prevents
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p.204
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20289
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Ethics is universalisable - it must involve an impartial and universal view of things
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10
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p.216
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20290
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Psychopaths may just be bored, because they cannot participate in normal emotional life
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p.34
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21993
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Materialist history says we are subject to incomprehensible forces
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p.61
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21997
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In Marxism the state will be superseded
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