Not only is there often a right and wrong, but what goes around does come around, Karma exists, chickens do come home to roost, and as my mother, Phyllis, liked to say, “There is always a day of reckoning.” The good among the great understand that every choice we make adds to the strength or weakness of our spirits—ourselves, or to use an old fashioned word for the same idea, our souls. That is every human’s life work: to construct an identity bit by bit, to walk a path step by step, to live a life that is worthy of something higher, lighter, more fulfilling, and maybe even everlasting.
Donald Van de MarkStichwörter: inspirational inspiration identity meaning-of-life ethics inspirational-quotes fulfillment ethical psychology meaning life-lessons personal-development karma psychology-spirituality
I think ethical ambivalence is a kind of innoculation, a way of excusing yourself in advance for something you actually want to do. No offense.
Jennifer EganIt’s pretty simple, the ethical life. It’s just demanding.
Terence McKennaAll sentient beings should have at least one right—the right not to be treated as property
Gary L. FrancioneStichwörter: peace ethical veganism slavery nonviolence rights abolition ahimsa property abolitionist resources sentient-beings francione moral-imperative
One of the main arguments that I make is that although almost everyone accepts that it is morally wrong to inflict “unnecessary” suffering and death on animals, 99% of the suffering and death that we inflict on animals can be justified only by our pleasure, amusement, or convenience. For example, the best justification that we have for killing the billions of nonhumans that we eat every year is that we enjoy the taste of animal flesh and animal products. This is not an acceptable justification if we take seriously, as we purport to, that it is wrong to inflict unnecessary suffering or death on animals, and it illustrates the confused thinking that I characterize as our “moral schizophrenia” when it comes to nonhumans.
A follow-up question that I often get is: “What about vivisection? Surely that use of animals is not merely for our pleasure, is it?”
Vivisection, Part One: The “Necessity” of Vivisection | Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach
Stichwörter: ethical health justification utilitarianism rights moral personhood welfare alternative vivisection
I want to make the choice that gives an accurate impression of who I am; and who I am is someone who wants to be ethical, evolved, yet not at all an oil pan for the machinations of the morally corrupt.
Kelli Jae BaeliStichwörter: choice morality identity ethical
Countries are rarely governed by the ethical and good people.
Mehmet Murat ildanStichwörter: ethical
Ethically, she couldn't cause the suffering of any living thing. Logically, bacon cheeseburgers were delicious.
Thomm QuackenbushStichwörter: food ethics suffering ethical vegetarian bacon carnivore hamburgers
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