Day 140h: Compassion for the Repugnant … (September 16, 2019)
We would all do well to remember that jokes making even indirect fun of the suffering of others are in no way funny or even mildly amusing; and that all they succeed in doing is expose those whose sense of empathy and justice and goodness and compassion has been duly drowned in spiritual sloth and apathetic avarice …
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored – and decency does not cease to be right if it is ridiculed … Nothing in the world is more dangerous – or more repulsive – than sincere ignorance mixed with conscientious stupidity.” ~ via Aldous Huxley & Martin Luther King Jr.
“Veganism is a good starting point from which to finally opt out of the barbaric anthropomorphic mindset that to this day somehow still believes that the world and all who live on it exists solely for our own personal benefit. Newsflash – they don’t.” ~ via Gary Francione
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