freedom – Skywritings https://generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk/skywritings Stevan Harnad Thu, 27 Jan 2022 12:15:53 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk/skywritings/wp-content/uploads/sites/287/2018/07/cropped-orang1-1-32x32.jpg freedom – Skywritings https://generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk/skywritings 32 32 Cato and Ockham on Slaughter https://generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk/skywritings/2021/10/13/cato-and-ockham-on-slaughter/ https://generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk/skywritings/2021/10/13/cato-and-ockham-on-slaughter/#respond Wed, 13 Oct 2021 11:52:23 +0000 https://generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk/skywritings/?p=1575 Continue reading "Cato and Ockham on Slaughter"

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Anything that makes life less-worse for the victims is welcome (but watch out for hidden poison that entrenches their miserable fate even deeper)

Preserving non-stun slaughter for “freedom of cult (or culture)” is an abomination: Freedom of belief, yes, but not freedom of barbaric practice (slavery, genital mutilation, animal “sacrifice,” gladiator sports, rodeos…)

And, ceterum censeo, no sentient creature should ever be harmed praeter necessitatem, i.e., beyond necessity for survival (as in the case of conflict of life/death interest between obligate carnivores and their prey, including the few remaining human subsistence hunting/fishing habitats – none of which are in the UK.

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World Happiness Report https://generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk/skywritings/2021/06/28/world-happiness-report/ https://generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk/skywritings/2021/06/28/world-happiness-report/#respond Mon, 28 Jun 2021 20:21:46 +0000 https://generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk/skywritings/?p=1539 Continue reading "World Happiness Report"

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The Hygge ladder

I think it would be more informative to ask people:

  1. whether they or their loved ones have any (a) mild, (b) moderate, or (c) grave illnesses
  2. whether they or their loved ones do not have enough to eat for the foreseeable future
  3. whether they or their loved ones do not have a place to live for the foreseeable future
  4. whether they  or their loved ones are not free, or in danger of harm

If their reply to 1-4 is no, then they should forget the 10-point Hygge ladder and count themselves as happy (and consider helping those sentient beings whose reply to 1-4 is not no).

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