Quotes About Consideration

Whatever the theoretical possibilities of rearing animals without suffering may be, the fact is that the meat available from butchers and supermarkets comes from animals who were not treated with any real consideration at all while being reared. So we must ask ourselves, not: Is it ever right to eat meat? but: Is it right to eat this meat?

Bentham señala la capacidad de sufrimiento como la característica básica que le torga a un ser el derecho a una consideración igual

Many philosophers and other writers have proposed the principle of equal consideration of interests, in some form or other, as a basic moral principle; but not many of them have recognized that this principle applies to members of other species as well as to our own.

In this passage Bentham points to the capacity for suffering as the vital characteristic that gives a being the right to equal consideration.

If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter what the nature of the being, the principle of equality requires that its suffering be counted equally with the like suffering—insofar as rough comparisons can be made—of any other being.

but if we examine more deeply the basis on which our opposition to discrimination on grounds of race or sex ultimately rests, we will see that we would be on shaky ground if we were to demand equality for blacks, women, and other groups of oppressed humans while denying equal consideration to nonhumans.

In other words, the interests of every being affected by an action are to be taken into account and given the same weight as the like interests of any other being.

I can only make one person happy each day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow doesn't look good, either.

Já salvei muitas vidas — Joan ergueu a mão— Você pode me dar um cigarro? Ele lhe ofereceu um, acendendo-o, sentindo-se, como sempre, culpado pelo esquecimento. — O que você faz? — inquiriu Joan. Relutante, não porque fosse confidencial, mas sim porque o trabalho conferia um status inferior na escala da consideração pública, descreveu sua função na CIA. Joan Trieste ouviu com atenção.

I'll give you my answer when I've decided.

One hears all sorts of things. The question is whether they matter.

Can anyone be utterly without thoughtfulness? The answer is yes.

An Up-Front Contract is based on the legal concept of a contract. Any valid legal contract consists of four major components and several minor components. On paper, here's what it looks like: 1. Lawful object 2. Competency 3. Consideration 4. Mutual consent A. Understanding B. A proposal, verbal or written C. Acceptance

Why trample on a flower when you don't need to?

I wonder if it's possible to have happiness without it being at someone else's expense.

I wonder if it's possible to start a new relationship without hurting someone else.

I wonder if it's possible to start a new relationship without hurting someone else. I wonder if it's possible to have happiness without it being at someone else's expense

What a powerful word, future. Of all the abstractions we can articulate to ourselves, of all the concepts we have that other animals do not, how extraordinary the ability to consider a time that's never been experienced. And how tragic not to consider it. It galls us, we with such a limited future, to see someone brush it aside as meaningless, when it has an endless capacity for meaning, and an endless number of meanings that can be found within it.

The first time the three of us went to the movies together, he waited until you went to get popcorn, and then he said, You don't mind, do you? And I'd been so moved that he'd asked, that he wanted my permission.

flagrant, adj. I would be standing right there, and you would walk out of the bathroom without putting the cap back on the toothpaste.

He can barely stand it when he wastes his own time; for someone else to waste it is unconscionable.

If you want to be loved,be a loveable. It's a good place to start.

However much our quotidian cares consume us, our dreamtime is too valuable, and will be devoted to problems not susceptible to rational consideration.

For now, if you are a white writer writing about a character of color, here is one consideration: Do you have friends or colleagues of that race who would openly and freely tell you if you are failing in that task and how and why, and would you be willing to seriously consider their critiques?