Temple Grandin could help out. On 3 April 2015 at 16:58, LizR <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well, you just have to kill them humanely, and I promise to take off my > heels before I stomp your foot. > > (Or become vegetarian...) > > On 3 April 2015 at 05:27, spudboy100 via Everything List < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Jason, If I stomp on your foot, it is you who will feel the pain not I, >> nor, will your poor toes pain be distributed amongst 7 billion others, just >> you. When we can grow meats without the animal we'll stop slaughtering >> animals for example. Sometimes compassion must be bracketed by what we are >> capable of doing at the time. Mayhap, in some future day, somebody will use >> their time machine to travel back to 1347 with a cure for the black plague, >> but that day is not today. >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Jason Resch <[email protected]> >> To: Everything List <[email protected]> >> Sent: Wed, Apr 1, 2015 8:31 pm >> Subject: Lovely Einstein Quote >> >> "A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part >> limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and >> feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of >> consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to >> our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our >> task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of >> compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its >> beauty. The true value of a human being is determined by the measure and >> the sense in which they have obtained liberation from the self. We shall >> require a substantially new manner of thinking if humanity is to survive." >> (Albert Einstein, 1954) >> >> >> >> I didn't know until today he also believed the egoist self was a >> delusion. >> >> Jason >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Everything List" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Everything List" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
