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we’ve separated the moral and the political. Conservatives gets the moral and progressives get the political, each group acting as if the two things aren’t intimately related.
Reviving Old Scratch
Richard Beck
A cat with a mouse—the cliché example of cruelty. I want to say clearly that I do not believe any animal is capable of being cruel. Cruelty implies consciousness of another’s pain and the intent to cause it. Cruelty is a human specialty, which human beings continue to practice, and perfect, and institutionalize, though we seldom boast about it. We prefer to disown it, calling it “inhumanity,” ascribing it to animals. We don’t want to admit the innocence of the animals, which reveals our guilt.
No Time to Spare
Ursula K. Le Guin, Karen Joy Fowler (Introduction)
The one thing we absolutely have to do if we want to get leaner—if we want to get fat out of our fat tissue and burn it—is to lower our insulin levels and to secrete less insulin to begin with.
Why We Get Fat
Gary Taubes
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