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Peter Singer
Australian
Philosopher
Born:
Jul 6
,
1946
Animals
Ethics
People
Think
World
You
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Open government is, within limits, an ideal that we all share. U.S. President Barack Obama endorsed it when he took office in January 2009.
Peter Singer
Government
President
President Barack Obama
Took
Obama
Open
Share
He
Ideal
Within
Limits
Office
Endorsed
Barack
Barack Obama
January
Even in non-democratic countries, people have a legitimate interest in knowing about actions taken by the government.
Peter Singer
Government
People
About
Taken
Countries
Knowing
Legitimate
Interest
Actions
Even
To make sustainable progress in reducing extreme poverty will require improvements in both the quantity and quality of aid.
Peter Singer
Quality
Progress
Will
Poverty
Aid
Extreme
Extreme Poverty
Both
Make
Quantity
Reducing
Sustainable
Require
More people with HIV/Aids are getting inexpensive anti-retroviral drugs, and their life expectancy has increased, but universal access is still far off, and the disease is still spreading, if more slowly than before.
Peter Singer
Life
People
Before
Increased
Life Expectancy
Slowly
More
More People
Access
Spreading
Still
Inexpensive
Off
Than
Expectancy
Disease
Getting
Far
Universal
Robots already perform many functions, from making cars to defusing bombs - or, more menacingly, firing missiles. Children and adults play with toy robots, while vacuum-cleaning robots are sucking up dirt in a growing number of homes and - as evidenced by YouTube videos - entertaining cats.
Peter Singer
Cats
Videos
Car
YouTube
Entertaining
More
Dirt
Adult
Firing
Perform
Missiles
Toy
Robots
Making
Up
Children
While
Many
Sucking
Growing
Functions
Homes
Play
Bombs
Number
Most of the robots being developed for home use are functional in design - Gecko's homecare robot looks rather like the Star Wars robot R2-D2. Honda and Sony are designing robots that look more like the same movie's 'android' C-3PO.
Peter Singer
Home
Robot
Design
Android
Rather
More
Developed
Sony
Like
Look
Most
Looks
Robots
Same
Being
Movie
Use
Wars
Functional
Star
Star Wars
Designing
Honda
There is no doubt that the world economy is in trouble. But if governments or individuals use this as an excuse to reduce assistance to the world's poorest people, they will only multiply the seriousness of the problem for the world as a whole.
Peter Singer
People
Problem
World
Will
Trouble
Doubt
No Doubt
Only
Individuals
Economy
Excuse
Reduce
Governments
Poorest
Use
Whole
Multiply
Seriousness
World Economy
Assistance
We tend to think that people are more to blame for their acts than for their omissions.
Peter Singer
Blame
People
Think
More
Tend
Than
Acts
I think I get angry when people cause serious suffering or don't alleviate suffering when they could.
Peter Singer
Angry
Suffering
People
Cause
Think
Alleviate
Could
Get
Serious
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