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On Helping Individuals and Utilitarianism

Animal Person

Of course, I have an emotional attachment to that one individual, Violet Rays. And you wouldn't fund a program that was very expensive per unit (human or nonhuman animal) yet you often don't think about that when you're dealing with an individual. Or paid for food for a year at a rescue kennel.

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Better Living Through Birding: Notes From a Black Man in the Natural World–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

I read this chapter, “In a Happy Place,” while I myself was birding during migration and totally identified with his description of neglecting everything–laundry, friends, exercise, and for me a book review–because… birds. It’s powerful writing. Shockingly, not everybody supported Chris.

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