If species is not morally important in itself, is there something else that happens to coincide with the human species, on the basis of which we can justify the inferior consideration we give to nonhuman animals? Peter Carruthers argues that it is the lack of a capacity to reciprocate. ...
SINGER: Absolutely. LEVITT: So, the first one is: “Pain is bad and similar amounts of pain are equally bad, no matter whose pain it might be.” SINGER: Right. I certainly continue to hold that view. I think it’s pretty hard to deny that pain is intrinsically bad. Of course, tha...
—Jesselyn Radack, who blew the whistle on Department of Justice malfeasance in the handling of the “American Taliban” John Walker Lindh. Jess went on to become a key part of Edward Snowden’s defense team (full disclosure: Jess was also one of my lawyers in my own whistleblowerstrugglewi...
“Alan was a BBC reporter who was kidnapped and held in Gaza Strip,” he says. “He’s a good friend but whenever I hear his voice, I immediately think of Gaza. He will forever be the guy who was detained in Gaza. I know that’s probably true for me too. I’ll always be the ...
Barrie did, however, do much to popularize the name, especially in Britain, where it became extremely popular and common following the great fame of Peter Pan.Wendy House –In the story Peter and the Lost Boys build a house around the injured Wendy, for her to recuperate in. The term ‘...
It was also seen as a foreign kind of speculation about the origins and development thing. In my first passport I had a license to buy alcohol of tea (bitter drink, called tu or ming). The historian in the dry (alcohol-free) state of Tamil Nadu, mentioning th Barend ter Haar argues ...