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From the Mailbag

Animal Ethics

Dear Keith, Mylan, and Jonathan, My name is Miry and I’m from Potomac, Maryland. I especially liked your posting from Gardner Williams’ “The Moral Insignificance of the Total of All Value.” I found this very inspiring, and would have never have seen it if not for your blog, so thank you for that. I read it all the time.

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Some Chinese Pheasants

10,000 Birds

Somehow, I feel this post about the few pheasants I have seen in China has gotten off to a wrong start – not quite the kind of motivation to blog readers to continue reading this post. I feel that thanking your own baby for moral support in the acknowledgment section of a Ph.D. Wait, does that remind me of anyone? Never mind.