Maynard S. Clark

noreply@blogger.com (vegetarian) — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:17:49 PST

American Scientist Online http://www.americanscientist.org/…_list.aspx

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noreply@blogger.com (vegetarian) — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:17:43 PST

Getting over much of the perturbation of global crises, national & international news, and family.

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noreply@blogger.com (vegetarian) — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:17:37 PST

Do societies with 'social ethics' that improve behavior make better persons or just improve actions?

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"Immoral doctrines" or "Immoral Persons" vis à vis Speciesism

noreply@blogger.com (vegetarian) — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:05:21 PST

Some believers in human exceptionalism base the concept in the Abrahamic religions, such as the verse in Genesis 1:26 "Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” " Animal rights advocates argue that dominion refers to stewardship and does not denote any right to mistreat other animals, which is consistent with the Bible. Buddhism, despite its reputation for respect for animals, explicitly accords humans a higher status in the progression of reincarnation. Animals may be reincarnated as humans, but only humans can reach enlightenment. Felipe Fernández-Armesto writes that early hunter-gatherer societies such as the Innu and many animist religions lacked a concept of humanity and placed non-human animals and plants on an equal footing with humans.

Religious and anti-religious anti-speciesists may not be able to get along socially or politically because, as a practical matter, many people may be unable to accept the values that a specific religion promotes (e.g., Islamic attitudes towards women) and will therefore not join that religion. Advocating for religious reasons that animals be accorded social and political rights may seem to require a practical secular justification either because (a) rights can only be established legally by a broad social consensus and social pluralism presents many contrasting religious and nonreligious belief patterns, and (b) arguing from a conceptual foundation that is not broadly accepted may in practice disconfirm what intuitive agreement might already exist on behalf of the personhood and moral status of animals. They may also be unable to accept the fact that those who do not affirm the rights of animals will go to hell or be damned, especially if said nonbelieving specieists are close to the person.
More recently, charges of speciesism against religions, both East and West, have posed a curiously re-discovered intellectually challenge: does one reject speciesist religions or merely the speciesist interpretations by speciesist affiliates who do not fully comprehend the breadth and depth of religious teachings? In other words, are religious teachings that describe the moral fallibility of human life more true because speciesism, a newly-recognized sin, is evident even among religious affiliates?

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noreply@blogger.com (vegetarian) — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:20:28 PST

"Let me be candid: By and large, meat-eaters are a self-righteous bunch." Karen Dawn, DawnWatch

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noreply@blogger.com (vegetarian) — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 11:24:44 PST

Tweaking 4-page grad school research mgnt admissions essay on leadership - .1" margins all-around

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noreply@blogger.com (vegetarian) — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:20:31 PST

My 4-page grad school admissions essay on leadership is nearly complete and COULD be submitted, but-

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noreply@blogger.com (vegetarian) — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 10:13:16 PST

Working on my 4-page grad school essay on leadership: your EXPERT insights are welcomed - individual, collaborative, reflective, or whatever

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noreply@blogger.com (vegetarian) — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:03:13 PST

Day 2 of planning and composing my 4-page essay on leadership for grad school in business

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Day 2 of planning and composing my 4-page essay on leadership for grad school in business

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noreply@blogger.com (vegetarian) — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:47:10 PST

Heading to the Countway Medical Library

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noreply@blogger.com (vegetarian) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:25:58 PST

Talking now with someone I like.

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noreply@blogger.com (vegetarian) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:04:43 PST

Dragging through Monday in the LMA: yet, this is a happy day for some odd reason, I cannot explain.

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Network wars

noreply@blogger.com (vegetarian) — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:29:46 PST

Yawn: Sunday morning talking heads talk show - FOX puts Chris Matthews opposite George Stephanopoulos - UH!

noreply@blogger.com (vegetarian) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:19:25 PST

The 19th century German Nietzsche urged mountain climbing when dismayed about homo sapiens

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noreply@blogger.com (vegetarian) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:39:01 PST

Deciding NOW just about HOW LATE to stay at the HMS office because I need to show project NUMBERS

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Win and let win

noreply@blogger.com (vegetarian) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:30:33 PST

Or is that 'live and let live'? Depends on who in your 'space' is winning but not cutting you in on it...as if you or I really NEED that person to 'cut us in on' her or his 'win' (or SEEMING win).

noreply@blogger.com (vegetarian) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:25:03 PST

home doing nothing tonight preparing to go to work early tomorrow to finished things not done today

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noreply@blogger.com (vegetarian) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:01:32 PST

Working away in the LMA on paying bills, then back to psych history project

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noreply@blogger.com (vegetarian) — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:25:41 PST

At the HMS office in Boston's LMA, trying to bring a 5-year-long project to a close within a week.

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noreply@blogger.com (vegetarian) — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:19:01 PST

At work - with LOTS of 'catching up' to do in my project, which must be brought to a quick conclusion within a week.

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Meat and Cancer: Lecture at the Harvard School of Public Health

noreply@blogger.com (vegetarian) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:08:02 PST

HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Department of Nutrition

Meat and Cancer
Rashmi Sinha, Ph.D.
Senior Investigator, Deputy Branch Chief Nutritional Epidemiology Branch Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics National Cancer Institute, NIH

Monday, November 23rd, 2009
12:30-1:20 p.m.
Harvard School of Public Health
Kresge Building, Room 502
651 Huntington Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts

Contact Colleen Bertrand for more information (617-432-1851, cbertran@hsph.harvard.edu)

Meat and Cancer: Lecture at the Harvard School of Public Health

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noreply@blogger.com (vegetarian) — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:08:14 PST

Internet Archive: Free Download: The 300-350 Show: Dr Pachauri on livestock and climate change http://www.archive.org/…mateChange

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What makes 'confidence schemes' ethically problematic for ethically sensitive persons?

noreply@blogger.com (vegetarian) — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:50:20 PST

Cruelty to persons around the world and throughout natural history is pretty awful.

Aesthetically, that makes ANY kind of metaphysical confidence pretty darn difficult for us mere mortals.

Even if some observable PROGRESS - moral progress, not merely technical improvements in methods and mechanisms - devices and dynamics - could be evident, the needless suffering and victimization make 'lipservice' to prior conceptualizations seem pretty unethical to sensitive folks like us.

But then, who really knows?