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dtnext.in | Peter Singer
Global health and development are too dependent on Western charity. The status quo was always going to unravel eventually. Since President Trump took office for the second time more than 100 days ago, he has initiated the largest remaking of this system in decades — beginning with the announcement that the United States will withdraw from the World Health Organisation and the dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development. The consequences are dire.
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bangkokpost.com | Peter Singer
Pope Francis carries a lamb on his shoulders as he visits the parish of the Sant'Alfonso Maria de Liguori in Rome in this Jan 6, 2014 photo. AFP When Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected pope in 2013, many liberals had high expectations.
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almendron.com | Peter Singer
Cuando el cardenal Jorge Mario Bergoglio fue elegido Papa en 2013, muchos liberales tenían grandes expectativas. ¿Se les permitiría casarse a los sacerdotes? O, aún más radical, ¿abriría el Papa el camino a la ordenación de mujeres? Incluso se insinuó que podría reconocer las uniones del mismo sexo.
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project-syndicate.org | Peter Singer
The late pope’s powerful encyclical, Laudato Si’, overturned the doctrine of absolute human domination over the natural world. Unfortunately, as in many other areas where liberals hoped for practical change, when it came to nonhuman animals, Francis failed to use his position to press for real-world reforms.
MELBOURNE – When Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected Pope in 2013, many liberals had high expectations. Would priests be allowed to marry?
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qoshe.com | Peter Singer
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nytimes.com | Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek |Peter Singer
Credit Credit... Kelli Anderson On March 19, 2024, we emailed the psychologist and Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman, inviting him to appear on our podcast, "Lives Well Lived," and suggesting a date in May. He replied promptly, saying that he would not be available then because he was on his way to Switzerland, where, despite being relatively healthy at 90, he planned to die by assisted suicide on March 27.
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nybooks.com | Peter Singer
Martin Luther King Jr. said that “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” Was he right? Some skeptics might question whether there even is such a thing as “the moral universe.” What we call morality, they may say, is nothing more than the subjective judgments of people in various times and places.
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smh.com.au | Peter Singer
March 23, 2025 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In the past few weeks, the Tasmanian salmon industry has been in the headlines. More than a million fish are reported to have died in what appears to be an outbreak of a bacterial disease. In February alone, more than 5500 tonnes of dead fish were dumped at southern Tasmanian waste facilities.
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2 months ago | 
almendron.com | Peter Singer
Desde la antigüedad, muchos pensadores se han preguntado si elegimos libremente lo que hacemos o, por el contrario, si nuestras acciones están determinadas por fuerzas que escapan a nuestro control. Descubrimientos científicos que mejoran la comprensión de las causas de nuestro comportamiento han dado nuevo ímpetu a este debate.
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2 months ago | 
project-syndicate.org | Peter Singer
Do we really deserve credit or blame for the decisions we make, or are our choices fully determined by our genes or by the conditions in which were raised – in any case, by factors over which we had no control? The question has been asked for millennia, and determinists always make the same mistake.
MELBOURNE – Since ancient times, thinkers have asked whether we freely choose what we do or if our actions are determined by forces beyond our control.
