The goal of maximizing the welfare of all may be better achieved by an ethic that accepts our inclinations and harnesses them so that, taken as a whole, the system works to everyone's advantage.

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

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