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„Zdrowy noworodek nie ma świadomości biograficznej, ale wiadomo, że niebawem będzie ją miał. Więc ma takie same prawa jak każdy inny człowiek. Ale jest pytanie, co z noworodkami, o których wiadomo, że na skutek wady czy choroby nigdy nie będą miały świadomości biograficznej, że nie przeżyłyby, gdyby nie fantastyczny rozwój medycyny, i że potęga medycyny skaże je oraz ich najbliższych na życie w nieusuwalnym cierpieniu. (…) Pytam, czy moralne jest sztuczne utrzymywanie takich dzieci przy życiu. Po jednej stronie mamy cierpienie tego dziecka i jego rodziny oraz gigantyczne nakłady, które mogłyby uratować lub poprawić jakość życia wielu ludzi, a po drugiej stronie jest tabu bezcennej wartości każdego ludzkiego życia.”

Peter Singer

Źródło: rozmowa Jacka Żakowskiego, Moralność oceniam po skutkach, polityka.pl, 2 czerwca 2010 http://www.polityka.pl/swiat/rozmowy/1506130,2,zycie-a-moralnosc.read

„Moja sugestia jest więc taka, żeby nadać życiu płodu nie większą wartość niż życiu zwierzęcia niebędącego człowiekiem o podobnym stopniu racjonalności, samoświadomości, świadomości, zdolności do odczuwania itd.”

Peter Singer

Etyka praktyczna
Źródło: s. 149.

„Holandia podtrzymuje prawo do eutanazji bez względu na to, kto rządzi, a Polska jej zakazuje bez względu na to, kto rządzi. Bo to jest kwestia zaufania do lekarzy i ich etyki zawodowej, do prawników, do państwa, do własnej rodziny. Społeczeństwa o wyższych standardach etycznych i wyższym poziomie zaufania lepiej sobie radzą z takimi wyzwaniami.”

Peter Singer

Źródło: rozmowa Jacka Żakowskiego, Moralność oceniam po skutkach, polityka.pl, 2 czerwca 2010 http://www.polityka.pl/swiat/rozmowy/1506130,2,zycie-a-moralnosc.read

„Bez względu na to, jaka jest natura istoty, zasada równości wymaga, by cierpienie było uznawane na równi z podobnymi cierpieniami – tak dalece, jak można je z grubsza porównać – innych istot. Jeśli istota nie jest zdolna do cierpienia czy doświadczania uczucia przyjemności lub szczęścia, nie ma nic do wzięcia pod uwagę. Dlatego właśnie granica odczuwania (…) jest jedyną dającą się obronić granicą troski o interesy innych.”

Peter Singer

Etyka praktyczna
Źródło: s. 67.

„Wszystkie argumenty na podparcie ludzkiej wyższości nie są w stanie zaprzeczyć jednej niezaprzeczalnej prawdzie: w cierpieniu zwierzęta są nam równe.”

Peter Singer

„Kiedy lecę z Nowego Jorku do Polski, zadaję sobie na przykład pytanie, czy efekt tej wizyty może usprawiedliwić zajmowanie miejsca w samolocie, który zużywa paliwo i niszczy środowisko.”

Peter Singer

Źródło: rozmowa Jacka Żakowskiego, Moralność oceniam po skutkach, polityka.pl, 2 czerwca 2010 http://www.polityka.pl/swiat/rozmowy/1506130,2,zycie-a-moralnosc.read

„Z chwilą, kiedy podstawą pozycji społecznej stało się samo bogactwo – zamiast np. mądrości, wiedzy, prawości czy sprawności w posługiwaniu się bronią – bogaci musieli znaleźć sposoby wydawania pieniędzy, których wyłącznym celem było demonstrowanie bogactwa. Thorstein Veblen nazwał to „ostentacyjną konsumpcją.””

Peter Singer

Źródło: Ostentacja jest głupia, przeł. Andrzej Erlich, „Gazeta Wyborcza”, 18–19 maja 2013.

„Pierwszą zatem rzeczą, jaką należy powiedzieć o etyce, jest to, że nie jest ona zbiorem zakazów dotyczących przede wszystkim życia płciowego. Nawet w epoce AIDS seks nie wniósł żadnych szczególnych problemów moralnych. Decyzje w sprawach seksu mogą pociągać za sobą rozważania o uczciwości, trosce o innych, rozwadze, itd., ale nie ma w nich nic szczególnego, gdyż to samo może dotyczyć na przykład decyzji o prowadzeniu samochodu (w istocie kwestie moralne związane z prowadzeniem samochodu zarówno z punktu widzenia środowiska jak i bezpieczeństwa są znacznie bardziej poważne niż te związane z seksem).”

Peter Singer

Etyka praktyczna
Źródło: str. 17.

Peter Singer: Cytaty po angielsku

“By ceasing to rear and kill animals for food, we can make so much extra food available for humans that, properly distributed, it would eliminate starvation and malnutrition from this planet. Animal Liberation is Human Liberation too.”

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Peter Singer książka Animal Liberation

Źródło: Animal Liberation

“All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.”

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“The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval.”

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“We have to speak up on behalf of those who cannot speak for themselves.”

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Peter Singer książka Animal Liberation

Źródło: Animal Liberation

“Arguments for preservation based on the beauty of wilderness are sometimes treated as if they were of little weight because they are "merely aesthetic". That is a mistake. We go to great lengths to preserve the artistic treasures of earlier human civilisations. It is difficult to imagine any economic gain that we would be prepared to accept as adequate compensation for, for instance, the destruction of the paintings in the Louvre. How should we compare the aesthetic value of wilderness with that of the paintings in the Louvre? Here, perhaps, judgment does become inescapably subjective; so I shall report my own experiences. I have looked at the paintings in the Louvre, and in many of the other great galleries of Europe and the United States. I think I have a reasonable sense of appreciation of the fine arts; yet I have not had, in any museum, experiences that have filled my aesthetic senses in the way that they are filled when I walk in a natural setting and pause to survey the view from a rocky peak overlooking a forested valley, or by a stream tumbling over moss-covered boulders set amongst tall tree-ferns, growing in the shade of the forest canopy, I do not think I am alone in this; for many people, wilderness is the source of the greatest feelings of aesthetic appreciation, rising to an almost mystical intensity.”

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Peter Singer książka Practical Ethics

Źródło: Practical Ethics

“The principles of ethics come from our own nature as social, reasoning beings.”

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Źródło: The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress (1981), Chapter 6, A New Understanding Of Ethics, p. 149

“Becoming a vegetarian is not merely a symbolic gesture. Nor is it an attempt to isolate oneself from the ugly realities of the world, to keep oneself pure and so without responsibility for the cruelty and carnage all around. Becoming a vegetarian is a highly practical and effective step one can take toward ending both the killing of nonhuman animals and the infliction of suffering upon them.”

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Peter Singer książka Animal Liberation

Źródło: Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for our Treatment of Animals (1975), Ch. 4: Becoming a Vegetarian

“Philosophy is not politics, and we do our best, within our all-too-human limitations, to seek the truth, not to score points against opponents. There is little satisfaction in gaining an easy triumph over a weak opponent while ignoring better arguments against your views.”

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'Last Generation': A Response http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/16/last-generation-a-response/, New York Times, June 16, 2010.

“I am a utilitarian. I am also a vegetarian. I am a vegetarian because I am a utilitarian.”

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Utilitarianism and Vegetarianism, Philosophy & Public Affairs, 9(4): 325 (1980).

“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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Peter Singer książka Animal Liberation

Źródło: Animal Liberation

“What one generation finds ridiculous, the next accepts; and the third shudders when it looks back on what the first did.”

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“Hebrew word for "charity" tzedakah, simply means "justice" and as this suggests, for Jews, giving to the poor is no optional extra but an essential part of living a just life.”

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Źródło: The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty

“We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet- for the sake of hamburgers”

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Peter Singer książka Animal Liberation

Źródło: Animal Liberation

“If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it.”

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“Were we incapable of empathy – of putting ourselves in the position of others and seeing that their suffering is like our own – then ethical reasoning would lead nowhere. If emotion without reason is blind, then reason without emotion is impotent.”

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Źródło: Writings on an Ethical Life

“To give preference to the life of a being simply because that being is a member of our species would put us in the same position as racists who give preference to those who are members of their race.”

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Peter Singer książka Practical Ethics

Peter Singer - The Genius of Darwin: The Uncut Interviews - Richard Dawkins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYYNY2oKVWU, 2009.
Źródło: Practical Ethics
Kontekst: Speciesism is an attitude of prejudice towards beings because they're not members of our species, so just as racism means that you're prejudiced against beings who are not members of your race and sexism means you're prejudiced against people of the other sex. So we humans tend to be speciesist in we think that any being that is a member of the species homo sapien just automatically has a higher moral status and is more important than any being that is a member of any other species, irrespective of the actual characteristics of those beings.

“Philosophy ought to question the basic assumptions of the age. Thinking through, critically and carefully, what most of us take for granted is, I believe, the chief task of philosophy, and the task that makes philosophy a worthwhile activity.”

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Peter Singer książka Animal Liberation

Źródło: Animal Liberation

“Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness.”

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Peter Singer

Źródło: The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty

“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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Peter Singer książka Animal Liberation

Źródło: Animal Liberation

“The only justifiable stopping place for for the expansion of altruism is the point at which all whose welfare can be affected by our actions are included within the circle of altruism. This means that all beings with the capacity to feel pleasure or pain should be included; we can improve their welfare by increasing their pleasures and diminishing their pains.”

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Źródło: The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress (1981), Chapter 4, Reason, p. 120

“How far down the evolutionary scale shall we go? Shall we eat fish? What about shrimps? Oysters? To answer these questions we must bear in mind the central principle on which our concern for other beings is based. As I said … the only legitimate boundary to our concern for the interests of other beings is the point at which it is no longer accurate to say that the other being has interests. To have interests, in a strict, nonmetaphorical sense, a being must be capable of suffering or experiencing pleasure. If a being suffers, there can be no moral justification for disregarding that suffering, or for refusing to count it equally with the like suffering of any other being. But the converse of this is also true. If a being is not capable of suffering, or of enjoyment, there is nothing to take into account.”

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Peter Singer książka Animal Liberation

Źródło: Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for our Treatment of Animals (1975), Ch. 4: Becoming a Vegetarian

“When we buy new clothes not to keep ourselves warm but to look "well-dressed" we are not providing for any important need. We would not be sacrificing anything significant if we were to continue to wear our old clothes, and give the money to famine relief. By doing so, we would be preventing another person from starving. It follows from what I have said earlier that we ought to give money away, rather than spend it on clothes which we do not need to keep us warm. To do so is not charitable, or generous. Nor is it the kind of act which philosophers and theologians have called "supererogatory"”

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an act which it would be good to do, but not wrong not to do. On the contrary, we ought to give the money away, and it is wrong not to do so.
Famine, Affluence, and Morality http://www.utilitarian.net/singer/by/1972----.htm, 1972.

“There may have been times when I wondered if there might be a God, but it always seemed to me wildly implausible that a God worth worshipping could allow the Holocaust to occur.”

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Peter Singer

Interview with the Jewish Chronicle https://www.thejc.com/lifestyle/interviews/peter-singer-is-he-really-the-most-dangerous-man-in-the-world-1.34980, Dan Goldberg, 16 August, 2012.