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We need a boundless ethics which will include animals also.
-Albert Schweitzer
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We Need A Boundless Ethics Which Will

Albert Schweitzer
We need a boundless ethics which will include animals also.
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The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo. we need a boundless ethics which will include the animals also. my life is full of meaning to me. the life around me must be full of significance to it. if i want others to respect my life, then i must respect the other life i see however strange it may be to mine. ethics in our western world has hitherto been largely limited to the relation of man to man... but that is a limited ethics.
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As to ethics, unfortunately, we are still at sea. we never did have any popular base for what little ethics we knew, except the religious theories, and now that our faith is shaken in those theories we cannot account for ethics at all. it is no wonder we behave badly, we are literally ignorant of the laws of ethics, which is the simplest of sciences, the most necessary, the most continuously needed. the childish misconduct of our 'revolted youth' is quite equaled by that of older people, and neither young nor old seem to have any understanding of the reasons why conduct is 'good' or 'bad.
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Thought cannot avoid the ethical or reverence and love for all life. it will abandon the old confined systems of ethics and be forced to recognize the ethics that knows no bounds. but on the other hand, those who believe in love for all creation must realize clearly the difficulties involved in the problem of a boundless ethic and must be resolved not to veil from humankind the conflicts which this ethic will involve us, but allow us really to experience them. to think out in every implication the ethic of love for all creation this is the difficult task which confronts our age.
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We need a boundless ethic, one which will include the animals, too. until we extend the circle of his compassions to all living things, we will not find peace.
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We owe them [animals] a decent life and a decent death, and their lives should be as low-stress as possible. that's my job. i wish animals could have more than just a low-stress life and a quick, painless death. i wish animals could have a good life, too, with something useful to do. people were animals, too, once, and when we turned into human beings we gave something up. being close to animals brings some of it back.
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Animals are like autistic savants. in fact, i'd go so far as to say that animals might actually be autistic savants. animals have special talents normal people don't, the same way autistic people have special talents normal people don't; and at least some animals have special forms of genius normal people don't, the same way some autistic savants have special forms of genius. i think most of the time animal genius probably happens for the same reason autistic genius does: a difference in the brain autistic people share with animals.
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