Peter Singer Quotes
If you go back in time you'll find tribes that were essentially only concerned with their own tribal members. If you were a member of another tribe, you could be killed with impunity.
Singer, Peter. The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1981, p. 111.
Nationalism produced negative effects on the society ranging from aggression, ethnic cleansing, war and hatred.
The statement was made in response to Senator Lewis Cass argument that “We want room.” There is an interesting parallel between Corwin, and American arguing for the Mexican side, and that of William Pitt, an Englishman who made an argument for the Americans during the American Revolution. See {626047}.
He was using “triblism” in the general sense of tribes, religions, political parties, nations or any group loyalty that domnates.
This included the non-Muslim Arabs and the Jews.
Historically, these were not countries like Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco or Iran. They were created artificially by the European powers in the 20th century.
Peter Albert David Singer AC is an Australian moral philosopher, currently the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. He specialises in applied ethics and approaches ethical issues from a secular, utilitarian perspective. He is known in particular for his book Animal Liberation (1975), in which he argues in favour of veganism, and his essay "Famine, Affluence, and Morality", in which he argues in favour of donating to help the global poor. For most of his career, he was a preference utilitarian, but he stated in The Point of View of the Universe (2014), coauthored with Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek, that he had become a hedonistic utilitarian.
