When thinking about triage situations, it's common for people to assume that saving lives (as many of them as possible) should be our moral goal. But this is wrong, for the straightforward reason that some deaths are vastly more tragic than others.It's worth bearing in mind that lives can't be saved, but only extended. So …
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Primatologist Frans de Waal believes that the way humans experience emotion is not unique: "That's a spectrum of behavior that we have, and the same thing is true for many other species."(Image credit: AFP/Getty Images) via Sex, Empathy, Jealousy: How Emotions And Behavior Of Other Primates Mirror Our Own — News : NPR
A Q&A with the intelligent and charming Charmaine Pedrozo, who is studying people’s emotional responses to wildlife as part of her master’s thesis. via Q&A with Charmaine Pedrozo: Studying Emotional Responses to Wildlife — The Jaguar
By Damian Carrington as published on The Guardian The huge loss is a tragedy in itself but also threatens the survival of civilization, say the world’s leading scientists Humanity has wiped out 60% of mammals, birds, fish and reptiles since 1970, leading the world’s foremost experts to warn that the annihilation of wildlife is now …
By Maeve Higgins In January of 2014, a girl who had left from Cobh in Ireland (formerly known as Queenstown) journeyed across the Atlantic, and skipped rosy-cheeked off an airplane at John F. Kennedy Airport to start her new life. That was me, compensating for my indoor ghost face with too much blush in a …
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By Martha C. Nussbaum from The New York Times, The Big Ideas - Opinion Over time, the idea of “being human” has surely meant — and will continue to mean — many things. There is and has never been just one answer. But surely one thing it ought to involve today is the ability to …
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