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Book: Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter
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  1. Peter Singer _ Ethics in the Real World: 82

    If we think that democracy is a good thing, then we must believe that the public should know as much as possible about what the government it elects is doing. Snowden has said that he made the disclosures because "the public needs to decide whether these programs and policies are right or wrong.
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  2. Peter Singer _ Ethics in the Real World: 82

    Whaling should stop because it brings needless suffering to social, intelligent animals capable of enjoying their own lives. But against the Japanese charge of cultural bias, Western nations will have little defense until they do much more about the needless animal suffering in their own countries.
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  3. Peter Singer _ Ethics in the Real World: 82

    Everything we get from whales can be obtained without cruelty. Causing suffering to innocent beings without an extremely weighty reason for doing so is wrong, and hence whaling is unethical.
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  4. Peter Singer _ Ethics in the Real World: 82

    Eliezer Yudkowsky, one of the founders of The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, believes that singularity will lead to an "intelligence explosion" as super-intelligent machines design even more intelligent machines, with each generation repeating this process.
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  5. Peter Singer _ Ethics in the Real World: 82

    We need to get over our reluctance to speak openly about the good we do. Silent giving will not change a culture that deems it sensible to spend all your money on yourself and your family, rather than to help those in greater need-even though helping others is likely to bring more fulfillment in the long run.
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  6. Peter Singer _ Ethics in the Real World: 82

    For nomadic societies, there was no point in owning anything that one could not carry, but once humans settled down and developed a system of money, that limit to acquisition disappeared.
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  7. Peter Singer _ Ethics in the Real World: 82

    Cutting out meat would do more to help combat climate change than any other action we could feasibly take in the next 20 years.
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  8. Peter Singer _ Ethics in the Real World: 82

    Words do have consequences, and what one generation says but does not really believe, the next generation may believe, and even act upon.
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