No Famine Has Ever Taken

The Identity Of An Individual Is Essentially A Function Of Her Choices, Rather Than The Discovery Of An Immutable Attribute

Anything That Increases The Voice Of Young Women Tends Therefore To Reduce The Fertility Rate.

Virtually Everything We Do Is Dependent On Others, From The Arts And Culture To Farmers Who Grow The Food We Eat. Quite A Lot Of The Differences That Make Us Rich And Poor Are Matters Just Of Luck. To Somehow Revel In One’s Privilege Would Be A Mistake. An Even Bigger Mistake Would Be Trying To Convert That Into A Theory That The Rich Are So Much More Productive Than Many Of Us.

If The Knowledge Of Torture Of Others Makes You Sick, It Is A Case Of Sympathy... It Can Be Argued That Behaviour Based On Sympathy Is In An Important Sense Egoistic, For One Is Oneself Pleased At Others' Pleasure And Pained At Others' Pain, And The Pursuit Of One's Own Utility May Thus Be Helped By Sympathetic Action.

Progress Is More Plausibly Judged By The Reduction Of Deprivation Than By The Further Enrichment Of The Opulent