One Of The Marks Of Our World Is Perhaps This Reversal: We Live According To A Generalized Image-repertoire. Consider The United Sates, Where Everything Is Transformed Into Images: Only Images Exist And Are Produced And Are Consumes ... Such A Reversal Necessarily Raises The Ethical Question: Not That The Image Is Immoral, Irreligious, Or Diabolic (as Some Have Declared It, Upon The Advent Of The Photograph), But Because, When Generalized, It Completely De-realizes The Human World Of Conflicts And Desires, Under Cover Of Illustrating It.
The Question Is, Why Are Politicians So Eager To Be President? What Is It About The Job That Makes It Worth Revealing, On National Television, That You Have The Ethical Standards Of A Slime-coated Piece Of Industrial Waste?
I Was Aware Of What Animals Go Through Because I Had Driven Animals To Slaughter And I'd Killed Animals. And I Was Aware That There Were Certain Ethical Issues, But They Weren't Preying On My Mind Very Heavily.
The Industrial Revolution Has Tended To Produce Everywhere Great Urban Masses That Seem To Be Increasingly Careless Of Ethical Standards.
We Have Not Reached The Consensus That To Eat Is A Basic Human Right. This Is An Ethical Crisis. This Is A Crisis Of Faith.
The Ethical Manifold, Conceived Of As Unified, Furnishes, Or Rather Is, The Ideal Of The Whole.
