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Suggest Revision: 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.
 
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Suggest Revision: The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval.
 
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Suggest Revision: The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of course I was not reassured by that, but I couldn't prove that that was wrong; so we're clearer about that.
 
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Suggest Revision: Then I think the sense of it being one community breaks down; but if you know instantly and respond within twenty-four hours, it's a very different sort of situation.
 
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Suggest Revision: We see things like reciprocity which are fairly central to our view of ethics. But if you're talking about a set of worked-out rules on what we are supposed to do then, yes, it is a human product
 
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Suggest Revision: They tend to be pretty abstract ones then, like doing what will have the best consequences; obviously you wouldn't specify what consequences are best, they may be different in some circumstances, so at a lower, more specific level, you may well get differences.
 
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Suggest Revision: What you could say, and what I do argue in the book, is that he doesn't have as much concern for the lives of Iraqis as he does for the lives of Americans, or even frozen American embryos.
 
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Suggest Revision: You might hold an ethical position that it's wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to keep them secret for practical reasons - to reduce casualties, perhaps - and someone asks you about those plans, you may need to lie for a 'good' outcome.
 
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Suggest Revision: All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.
 
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Suggest Revision: An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable.
 
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