Albert Schweitzer put it right in his 1952 Nobel Prize acceptance speech that perfect human-to-human ethics can only exist by having perfect human-to-animal ethics:
It is convinced that compassion, in which ethics takes root, does not assume its true proportions until it embraces not only man but every living being. To the old ethics, which lacked this depth and force of conviction, has been added the ethics of reverence for life, and its validity is steadily gaining in recognition.
For a brief biography of Albert Schweitzer, click here.
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