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I reject animal welfare reform and single-issue campaigns because they are not only inconsistent with the claims of justice that we should be making if we really believe that animal exploitation is wrong, but because these approaches cannot work as a practical matter. Animals are property and it costs money to protect their interests; therefore, the level of protection accorded to animal interests will always be low and animals will, under the best of circumstances, still be treated in ways that would constitute torture if applied to humans. By endorsing welfare reforms that supposedly make exploitation more “compassionate” or single-issue campaigns that falsely suggest that there is a coherent moral distinction between meat and dairy or between fur and wool or between steak and foie gras, we betray the principle of justice that says that all sentient beings are equal for purposes of not being used exclusively as human resources. And, on a practical level, we do nothing more than make people feel better about animal exploitation. I maintain that those who believe that animals are members of the moral community should, instead, make clear that veganism, defined as not eating, wearing, or using animals, is the non-negotiable, unequivocal moral baseline and should put their labor and resources into grassroots vegan education that may take a myriad of creative forms but should never involve violence. ↗
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Charles Laughton, who's a great hero of mine, only ever made one film and it happens to be one of the great films ever, which is 'The Night of the Hunter.' It's full of his kind of imagination and creation and how you do things and just in the way he used the studio, I just thought it was a fantastical way of using the studio. ↗
そして「グローバルウェブ」を牽引する第三要素は、シリコンバレー発グローバルの思想基盤とも言えるカリフォルニアン・イデオロギーと呼ばれるものです。テクノロジーこそが「反中央・反権威」の個をエンパワーするもので、その力を起爆剤に現状を打破しフロンティアを切りひらこうという、シリコンバレーの思想的ルーツとも言える考え方です。 個人の自由を最大限尊重すべきだとし、国家や体制に縛られるのを嫌うリバタリアン的な考え方と、カリフォルニア的なテクノロジー至上主義（個の力を強めるパーソナル・テクノロジーや管理されないネットの自由を信奉する）が結びついた考え方とも言えます。 「反中央・反権威」ではあるけれど資本主義とも深く結びつき、根本的な社会変革や革命を目指す思想ではありません。パーソナル・テクノロジー時代、ウェブ時代の時代精神として、アメリカ西海岸を発祥に、そこを超えて全世界に信奉者を集めるようになった考え方です。[43〜44ページ] ↗
I've got some great guy friends. They can start out as crushes. But when you realize something isn't going to happen, you make a choice whether or not the friendship is worth it. And it usually is. Then you can laugh about the fact that you used to have a crush on him or he had one on you. ↗
