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Its called Animal Liberation now. Is the publication of this Update Recognition that your call, your demand for a new relationship between humanity and all the other creatures on this planet, that that call failed . Well, it failed to achieve what i had hoped it would achieve and what i believe ethically it needs to achieve, thats true. It didnt totally fail because there is now an Animal Rights movement which is a powerfulforce in many of the countries in the world and many people kindly credit my book as having triggered or inspired that movement. And that movement has had some achievements in some countries, i wouldnt deny that, but if we look at it globally, there are more animals in factory farms than there were ever before and there are more animals suffering from human use and misuse than there were before, so yes, i have to accept in that sense, it has failed. Isnt your most fundamental principle a simple one . That is, that human beings have no moral, ethical right to exploit
Its called Animal Liberation now. Is the publication of this Update Recognition that your call, your demand for a new relationship between humanity and all the other creatures on this planet, that that call failed . Well, it failed to achieve what i had hoped it would achieve and what i believe ethically it needs to achieve, thats true. It didnt totally fail because there is now an Animal Rights movement which is a powerful force in many of the countries in the world and many people kindly credit my book as having triggered or inspired that movement. And that movement has had some achievements in some countries, i wouldnt deny that, but if we look at it globally, there are more animals in factory farms than there were ever before and there are more animals suffering from human use and misuse than there were before, so yes, i have to accept in that sense, it has failed. Isnt your most fundamental principle a simple one . That is, that human beings have no moral, ethical right to exploit
Something more in their life than less. A number of people who took money quite yet because of the digital revolution and when they do that they certainly think what now . Now that i made my 500 million, even billions by the time you are 25 what do you do for the rest of your life . Not everybody is in that situation. That cant be. I do think a lot of people, never heard the term effective altruism, since i was a teenager since i was a child. The internet makes it easy to discover effective altruism. The people that connect to. Instead there must be something strange about me. I really think i should share more of my good fortune with people in poverty. There is more to it. Since you mentioned morality, that was an epic we important thing for a lot of people but it was also there wasnt a lot of give. Basically i believe it is fair to say you argue we should do the things we have away until we are with those people who are poorest among us and sensing from you and reading the book that