Effective altruism is the form of altruism in which we bring our rational capacities to bear in order to do the most good that we can.

Surely there will be some nonhuman animals whose lives, by any standards, are more valuable than the lives of some humans.

Bush sees the evil as out there in the wider world, residing in people who 'hate freedom'. Look at his immediate response to the pictures of prisoner abuse; this is not what Americans do, these are not our values.

Nineteen thousand children [are] dying every day. Does it really matter that we're not walking past them in the street? Does it really matter that they're far away? I don't think it does make a morally relevant difference.

I would not question the sincerity of vegetarians who take little interest in Animal Liberation because they give priority to other causes; but when nonvegetarians say that "human problems come first" I cannot help wondering what exactly it is that they are doing for human beings that compels them to continue to support the wasteful, ruthless exploitation of farm animals.

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

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