4 The Love Of Animals
MARCH 17, 2011
Elephants, whales, hippopotamuses, giraffes, and alligators use low-frequency sounds to communicate over long distances, often miles; and bats, dolphins, whales, frogs, and various rodents use high-frequency sounds to find food, communicate with others, and navigate. A Grateful Whale. Is this moral?
Animal Ethics
JANUARY 30, 2012
Properly interpreted, the common law is meant to be flexible, adaptable to changes in public morality, and sensitive to new scientific discoveries. Among its chief values are liberty and equality.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 18, 2013
When I told the kindly old woman with the cart of skulls for the edification of visitors about the pigeon, I was worried that the living bird would somehow hurt the long-dead elephants, not that it was trapped or going to be contaminated by the preservatives embedded in the pachyderm hide — a bizarre moral calculation to say the least.
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