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...believe that all sentient beings??that would include primates—should be free from exploitation...which could include experimentation,” Hall said. “We want to hold [researchers] accountable for their actions...
...also deeply affected as an American. I have watched a gang of governors degrade the value of liberty and human life by denying both citizens and foreigners the constitutional rights with which all human beings??not just Americans—must be endowed. As a second-generation Iranian and a descendent of a pilgrim from the Mayflower, I am embittered by the attacks of the hijackers and the current administration on this nation...
Most people are little aware of the prevalence of government mass murder, except for the Nazi genocide of six million Jews. Yet even this somber memorial vastly underestimates the violence of the regime, which murdered over three times that many human beings??nearly 21 million in total, excluding war dead...
...central text of Mahayana Buddhism, for my tutorial that afternoon. It’s the guide to being a bodhisattva, one who has dedicated oneself not just to attaining enlightenment, but also to saving “all beings from suffering.” “All beings?? includes flies. Someone who has taken the bodhisattva vows has dedicated himself or herself to eons of work while remaining in the cycle of samsara—the cycle of death and rebirth characterized by attachment, hatred, ignorance, and endless suffering. Such vows require an incredible degree of deep...
That is, in my reading, we confront here a world-view that assigns greater moral value to the lives of some human beings??Palestinian civilians—than to the lives of others—Israeli civilians (not all of them Jews, to be sure). Here the petition’s rhetoric is simply shameful, its dehumanizing effects thoroughly offensive. Yet again, Summers got it right: anti-Semitic in effect if not in intent...