Ethics Evolution Quotes

Ethics change with technology.

Ethics evolve naturally, and we trample upon them with laws created by reason and experience.

Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.

Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical.

What we think is ethical today, we may not have thought ethical five or 10 years ago. Cloning, stem cell research? However we feel about those things today, we may feel differently 10 years from now.

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.

Things change so fast, you can't use 1971 ethics on someone born in 1971.