How to Cure a Cruel World
We live in a cruel world. There is suffering. There is a lack of human compassion. We prefer the preservation of the self over the welfare of others.
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How to Have a Gentle Thanksgiving
If you want to have a healthy and cruelty-free Thanksgiving — please consider Going Gentle this year. You can celebrate life instead of biting dead bodies.
Dirty Phonebook Gives You the Finger
The tide of uncontrolled anger on the internet — think Juicy Campus and FML and Lori Drew as previously excoriated examples — rises anew in a wave of awkward hatred as Dirty Phonebook crashes against our moral shore.
Solitary Confinement Creates the Worst of Us
If we still believe in the United States that the purpose of prison is to rehabilitate both mind and body — should we ever be putting people in solitary confinement for years on end? Should an entire prison term ever consist of 23-hour a day lockdown with one man in a single cell?
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The Human Shame of Proposition Two
Do farm animals have rights? Do they deserve legal protection during their lives before they meet their deaths on your dinner table? In California, Proposition 2 is November 4 ballot initiative — better known as the “Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act” — and I wonder why we even need to provide that protection and why we don’t naturally have it in us to humanely tend those that feed so many as part of our basic human nature.
Generational Wrongs
There are some wrongs that are so terrible and so terrifying — and that wound all of humanity so harshly — that they can never be set right in the lifetimes of those who perpetrated, and received, the cruelty.
Who Will Weep for Tatiana?
Should we be surprised when a wild animal behaves like a wild animal and attacks when provoked?
That is the question we need to ask when we consider the role zoos play in our lives on a moral and ethical level and we need to begin to wonder if raising wild animals in captivity is beneficial to the animal or if that process is only a money-making proposition where animals are used as entertainment.
Tatiana, a Siberian tiger born in the Denver Zoo, was a beautiful being in 2003 when she was a cub.
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