If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it.
Animal rights, utilitarian ethics
If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it.
Animal rights, utilitarian ethics
Essay: 'Famine, Affluence, and Morality'
1972
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