Bush doesn't present himself as a realpolitik politician.

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More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency.

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The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval.

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I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics.

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I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics.

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I don't think nationalism is alone holding the field; it's in contention with a lot of different things.

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All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact in suffering the animals are our equals.

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All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.

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An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable.

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I'm a Utilitarian, so I don't see the rule against lying as absolute; it's always subject to some overriding utility which may prevent its exercise.

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