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If Peter Singer thinks it was wrong, you've got a tough road ahead of you justifying what you've done.

(Full disclosure: Singer is one of my personal heroes.)

For someone whose never heard of him, what did Peter Singer do to earn your admiration?

He's one of the world's most pre-eminent bioethicists.

His writings on animal welfare (e.g., The Way We Eat) and fighting poverty (e.g., The Expanding Circle, The Life You Can Save) are fantastic and should be required reading.

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Among other things, he wrote this:

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/05/magazine/the-singer-soluti...

(To help clarify the above comment, Singer says the Google CEO did wrong).

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