Quotes About Ethics

If we say that an individual's character is revealed by the choices they make over time, then, in a similar fashion, an individual's character would also be revealed by the choices they make across many worlds.

A company called Edgeplayer markets a digient torture chamber on the Real Space platform; to avoid accusations of unauthorized copying, they use only public-domain digients as victims. The user group has agreed that once they get the Neuroblast engine ported, their conversion procedure will include full ownership verification; no Neuroblast digient will ever enter Real Space without someone committed to taking care of it.

Each time you do something generous, you're shaping yourself into someone who's more likely to be generous next time, and that matters.

In discussions about free will, a lot of people say that for an action of yours to be freely chosen—for you to bear moral responsibility for that action—you must have had the ability to do something else under exactly the same circumstances.

Is it better for Marco to have his brain chemistry altered than for Ana to alter hers?

They figure that affection will produce better results, and the only way trainers will feel affection for Sophonce digients is with pharmaceutical intervention.

Coyote hunting can't be justified on the basis of the damage they do. Shooting coyotes is really just fun, a man with a high-powered rifle trying to see if he can kill a frightened creature that can't shoot back.

Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians--except for the occasional mountain lion steak.

I don't like repeat offenders; I like dead offenders.

War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.

It almost seemed as if Buchanan's regime was leasing the country's name, as his friends enriched themselves and presided over a machinery of government that was lubricated with bribery, brandy, and insider deals. In New York, a lawyer, George Templeton Strong, wrote in his diary that he felt like he was reliving "the Roman Empire in its day of rotting.

The conscience within man is always either excusing or accusing.

Barry (1995) defines prostitution as sexual exploitation: 'when the human being is reduced to a body, objectified to sexually service another, whether or not there is consent, violation of the human being has taken place'.

Nature is cruel but we don't have to be

I think using animals for food is an ethical thing to do, but we've got to do it right. We've got to give those animals a decent life and we've got to give them a painless death. We owe the animal respect.

It would seem the people who want to preserve the Penans' way of life are condemning them to a life full of diseases and a shorter life span.

What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.

He who spares the bad injures the good.

They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

Given my absolute druthers, I would certainly like to see that every part of my body is used for spare parts for science.

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

When you see corruption, when you see injustice, you speak up. You don't just shut up and say it's none of my business.

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.