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Peter Singer: The Most Influential Living Philosopher

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This article talks about Peter Singer, “the most influential living philosopher.” The author gives five reasons to hate and five reasons to love about this great philosopher. The reasons the author gives on why he likes Peter Singer are he uses his influence to convince people to live a better life such as living as a vegetarian, he is reasonable and down-to-earth as he would do everything to show people how much he would do crazy things to catch the attention of people to show how severe he believes his case is, he makes people ponder and consider whether their beliefs and religion are actually doing the right thing such as how Christians are not taking care of animal welfare, taking care of the environment, and giving to the poor, he is a

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