The Notion That Human Life Is Sacred

Herbert Spencer Is Little Read Now. Philosophers Do Not Regard Him As A Major Thinker. Social Darwinism Has Long Been In Disrepute.

Even In The Era Of Aids, Sex Raises No Unique Moral Issues At All. Decisions About Sex May Involve Considerations About Honesty, Concern For Others, Prudence, And So On, But There Is Nothing Special About Sex In This Respect, For The Same Could Be Said Of Decisions About Driving A Car. (in Fact, The Moral Issues Raised By Driving A Car, Both From An Environmental And From A Safety Point Of View, Are Much More Serious Than Those Raised By Sex.)

If We All Think Only Of Our Own Interests, We Are Headed For Collective Disaster - Just Look At What We Are Doing To Our Planet's Climate.

What One Generation Finds Ridiculous, The Next Accepts; And The Third Shudders When It Looks Back On What The First Did.

We Are Not Especially 'interested In' Animals. Neither Of Us Had Ever Been Inordinately Fond Of Dogs, Cats, Or Horses In The Way That Many People Are. We Didn't 'love' Animals.