Beginning to reason is like stepping onto an escalator that leads upward and out of sight. Once we take the first step, the distance to be traveled is independent of our will and we cannot know in advance where we shall end.

— Peter Singer The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress (1981)

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