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Love is a dangerous thing, it can be great and it can be awful. It might make or break your life. It could even change you as a person.

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Peter Singer

What is there about the notion of a person, at law, that makes every living member of the species Homo sapiens a person, irrespective of their mental capacities, but excludes every nonhuman animal - again, irrespective of their mental capacities?

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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.

Basic, Believe, Philosophy, Thinking, Worthwhile

My view is different from this, only to the extent that if a decision is taken, by the parents and doctors, that it is better that a baby should die, I believe it should be possible to carry out that decision, not only by withholding or withdrawing life-support - which can lead to the baby dying slowly from dehydration or from an infection - but also by taking active steps to end the baby's life swiftly and humanely.

Baby, Believe, Infection, Possible, Taken, Taking

The problem is not with the athletes, but with us. No matter how blatant the drug use may be, we don't stop watching the Tour de France. Maybe we should just turn off the television and get on our own bikes.

Athlete, Athletes, Drug Use, Sports, Television, Tour

Grain that is used to feed animals that end up on our tables as turkeys and hams could have gone to feed starving people.

Animal, Grain, People, Starving, Tables, Turkeys

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

Accompanied, Needs, Poverty, Powerlessness, States
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