Extreme Poverty Is Not Only

Egoism... Is Not Eliminated By Economic Reorganization Or By Material Abundance. When Basic Needs Are Satisfied, New 'needs' Emerge. In Our Society, People Want No Simply Clothes, But Fashionable Clothes; Not Shelter, But A House To Display Their Wealth And Taste.

History Is Not Going To Look Kindly On Us If We Just Keep Our Head In The Sand On Armed Autonomous Robotics Issue Because It Sounds Too Science Fiction.

Typically, Defenders Of Experiments On Animals Do Not Deny That Animals Suffer. They Cannot Deny The Animals' Suffering, Because They Need To Stress The Similarities Between Humans And Other Animals In Order To Claim That Their Experiments May Have Some Relevance For Human Purposes. The Experimenter Who Forces Rats To Choose Between Starvation And Electric Shock To See If They Develop Ulcers (which They Do) Does So Because The Rat Has A Nervous System Very Similar To A Human Being's, And Presumably Feels An Electric Shock In A Similar Way.

The Goal Of Maximizing The Welfare Of All May Be Better Achieved By An Ethic That Accepts Our Inclinations And Harnesses Them So That, Taken As A Whole, The System Works To Everyone's Advantage.

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?