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Tatiana the tiger, kept in the San Francisco Zoo, snapped one day in 2007, after a group of teenage boys had been taunting her. She somehow got over the 12-foot wall surrounding her 1,000-square-foot enclosure and attacked one of the
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Hard to feel sympathy for these kids honestly. It takes some serious cruelty and or cowardice to torment a prisoner in a cage just because you think they can’t retaliate.
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“There were two ways to read the Old Testament. For those who lacked spiritual insight, it was read as a list of rules, with the shallow, superficial idea that all God wanted was compliance. Obey the rules, and you were acceptable to God. However, for those who were spiritually mature and had the insight to know better, the Hebrew Scriptures were more than just a list of rules to be obeyed, they were a reservoir of divine wisdom that could enlighten the heart and mind, opening one’s eyes so he could see what constituted a life of wisdom.”
― 21st Century Ethics : An Introduction to Moral Philosophy
― 21st Century Ethics : An Introduction to Moral Philosophy
“And it is not our part here to take thought only for a season, or for a few lives of Men, or for a passing age of the world. We should seek a final end of this menace, even if we do not hope to make one.”
― The Lord of the Rings
― The Lord of the Rings
“Justice, then, must function at both levels: personal and communal. It must flow in both directions: from one individual to another and from the community as a whole to each individual.”
― 21st Century Ethics : An Introduction to Moral Philosophy
― 21st Century Ethics : An Introduction to Moral Philosophy
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