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Emotion vs. Reason

Critter News

There's always a dilemma in debating any issue as to whether one should rely on emotion or reason to advance one's argument. Many people say that PETA relies too heavily on emotion to argue its position. Others say that emotion is the only way to move humans to care about anything other than themselves. I'm really torn.

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Deadline Approaching for Animal Essays

Animal Person

" Creative Nonfiction is seeking essays about the bonds--emotional, ethical, biological, physical, or otherwise--between humans and animals. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language animal essays Creative Nonfiction. We're looking for stories from a variety of viewpoints. The postmark deadline is April 2, 2010."

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Reiki for Animals by Tim Link

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Reiki (pronounced ray-key) energy healing is a gentle, painless, yet powerful modality that works on all living things – human and animal. Animals in particular are receptive to Reiki, because they have a higher energy frequency running through their bodies than humans do. Humans have seven main chakras.

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On Altruism and Compassion in Economic Systems

Animal Person

Here's a quote from the homepage of the conference's site, CompassionEconomics.org : "The ongoing global financial crisis shows clearly just how vulnerable economic systems are to human behavior, particularly to corruption and greed. Tags: Current Affairs Economics Ethics Gray Matters Language Religion.

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On Cannibalism

Animal Person

It's a bit difficult to take on the soul question for human or nonhuman animals, particularly for an atheist. But the other issues--sentience, suffering, being part of the "mysterious unity of life"--Cohen's own criteria for lumping anyone into one category, are all equally true for humans. I'll set it aside here.

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Roger Cohen Realizes Dogs=Pigs, Sort Of

Animal Person

But as Cohen experiences, humans don't live "in theory." The theory that the mind finds inescapably well-formulated is often overwhelmed and overturned by human emotions. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Food and Drink Gray Matters. product that comes from an animal ). The theory is sound. There's no way out.

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Odd Friendships

4 The Love Of Animals

National Geographic Channel’s upcoming show, Unlikely Animal Friends, will bring you stories about Christian the Lion and his humans, a baby hippo and a giant tortoise, a lioness and a baby oryx, an orangutan and a hound dog and more! Tags: tv. Animals that wouldn’t normally hang out together? UNLIKELY ANIMAL FRIENDS.

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