“Of course we cried out in horror when we found out what they had been up to. We cried: What a terrible crime, to treat human beings like cattle! If we had only known beforehand! But our cry should more accurately have been: What a terrible crime, to treat human beings like units in an industrial process! And that cry should have had a postscript: What a terrible crime, come to think of it - a crime against nature - to treat any living being like a unit in an industrial process!”
- J.M. Coetzee
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Animals, Morality, Race, Religion
ethics, industry, similarities
“It’s difficult to get people to turn their backs on “traditions” and “rites of passage” that have existed for a long time, but I’ve got to hope that people will eventually see compassion as a tradition worth being remembered for.”
- Taste Better
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Animals, Morality, Religion
tradition, values
“American culture has basically accepted the concept of human rights. [...]
“[...]this concept has included implicit exclusions. [...]
“The exclusion has always been justified by putative differences in kind. The question in such border disputes is always when is a difference a distinction.”
- Joel
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Ability, Children, Gender, LGBTQ, Law, Race, Religion, War
animal rights, human rights, rights
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When asked why he’d come to Birmingham, [Dr. Martin Luther] King wrote “I am here because injustice is here.” When asked why we support the Matthew Shepard Act black Christians can respond the same.
- Melissa Harris Lacewell[/Are_PayPal_LoginPlease]
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LGBTQ, Law, Race, Religion
Matthew Shepard Act
“Ultimately, the way you live your life should be fruitful for those around you so you leave the world a little bit better.”
- Fernando Aguilar, atheist
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Morality, Religion
atheism
