“Were we incapable of empathy — of putting ourselves in the position of others and seeing that their suffering is like our own — then ethical reasoning would lead nowhere. If emotion without reason is blind, then reason without emotion is impotent.” ~Peter Singer (b. July 6, 1946) in Writings on an Ethical Life
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