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An animal or even a human as a "thing" is at the foundation of Baconian logic and modern science. Judge Fahey's hope that "we will not be able to ignore" the issue of disregard for the preciousness of sentient life, seems outweighed at the moment by atrocities in Gaza being swept into narratives by political actors affecting the behavior of police on campuses, by design. Naomi Klein pointed out there's "idolatry" happening. Education itself is premised upon control and disabling of free thought, by the standards of Bertrand Russell and Fichte. So here's this world we're born into, where you try and be a person by all the lights you possess, and even if someone acknowledges you, you can't spare them the inevitable sense of despair that comes of things being in such disrepair. I like that you find simple comfort sometimes with the rescues you do, which I see as the right circumstances for anyone to be in.

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Very elegantly put. And I understand the despair. But look at the longer arc, and change seems inevitable. Even the fact that students in the US are mobilizing for children thousands of miles away is evidence that something is shifting in human culture.

Either way, thank you for your compassion and thoughts

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That’s your fault, my fault, our fault.

Back up buttercup. Bring solutions. Otherwise, stay home and be quiet.

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This seems harsh...

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Yeah, I’m a harsh guy.

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I can see that! Having said that, it's not the tone I'm looking to build on this newsletter. What do you think of commenting in a way that's less hostile? I don't mind you being hostile to me, but not going to allow it towards other users.

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Forward and blunt is certainly not rude.

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