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On Helping Individuals and Utilitarianism

Animal Person

Or paid for food for a year at a rescue kennel. Or printed thousands of copies of vegan leaflets. Of course, I have an emotional attachment to that one individual, Violet Rays. I've never met Bella , the orange tabby pictured above whose people abused her and tried to declaw her with pliers.

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On Coping Mechanisms

Animal Person

I don't need to "remind myself" of how bad it is to bolster my commitment to veganism. So I do what I can do, beginning of course with being vegan. I rescue, I adopt, I do TNR, and I connect others to resources to do the same. How do you deal with this and diffuse the anger and sadness that you must feel? I know it's out there.

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