‘Anything to do with his slaughter-sheep?’ ‘Yes. No. I haven’t changed my ideas, if that is what you mean. I still don’t believe that animals have properly individual lives. Which among them get to live, which get to die, is not, as far as I am concerned, worth agonizing over. Nevertheless . . .’ ‘Nevertheless?’ ‘Nevertheless, in this case I am disturbed. I can’t say why.’
