The General Demolition of My Opinions
When donating money, supplies, etc please know where it is going and what it will be used for. Corporations like HSUS, ASPCA, PETA, etc will not use your gifts wisely or with good intentions. Help reputable local rescues and shelters. You will see real positive results that way!
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Stephen Colbert Interviews Neil deGrasse Tyson (youtube)
Short sided would be correct Neil.
Yeah, he’d make a good president. NDT for Prez!
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Still getting used to sleeping alone. Life is infinite sadness. /Livejournal
Deriving ethics from ecology?
“from the perspective of modern biology, species adapt to a niche in the ecosystem. Their actual relationships to other organisms ( to predators, to prey, to parasites and disease organisms) and to the physical and chemical conditions ( to temperature, radiation, salinity, wind, soil, and water [ acidity]) literally sculpt their outward forms, their metabolic, physiologi-cal, and reproductive processes, and even their psychological and mental capacities.” - J. Baird Callicott
Besides the implications this has for ecological holism, could this be used to support a communitarian political ideology? If the society is ontologically prior to the individual, does the individual’s greatest commitment pertain to the community? Huh?
“ The capacity for suffering and enjoyment is a prerequisite for having interests at all, a condition that must be satisfied before we can speak of interests in a meaningful way. It would be nonsense to say that it was not in the interests of a stone to be kicked along the road by a schoolboy. A stone does not have interests because it cannot suffer. Nothing that we can do to it could possibly make any difference to its welfare. The capacity for suffering and enjoyment is, however, not only necessary, but also sufficient for us to say that a being has interests— at an absolute minimum, an interest in not suf-fering. A mouse, for example, does have an interest in not being kicked along the road because it will suffer if it is.
Peter Singer, Animal Liberation
Nothing but support for Tom Gabel on her decision to become a woman.
