Accidental animal crueltyI once invented a brilliant game - I'd sit at the top of the stairs and throw cat biscuits to the bottom. My cat would eat them, then I'd shake the box, and he would run up the stairs for more biscuits. Then - of course - I'd throw a biscuit back down to the bottom. I kept this going for about half an hour, amused at my little game, and all was fine until the cat vomited. I felt absolutely dreadful.
Have you accidentally been cruel to an animal?
This question has been revived from way, way, way back on the b3ta messageboard when it was all fields round here.
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rob, Thu 6 Dec 2007, 11:13)
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Incidentally...... Nietzsche did, of course, go mad (tertiary syphilis, I believe): but that doesn't make much difference to his status as a philosopher. He was quite sane until late 1888-early 1889, and the stuff he produced in his final sane years - the Geneaology of Morals in particular - is stunning, as is the putdown to John Stuart Mill in Twilight of the Idols: "Man does not strive after happiness: only the English do that". His strange little autobiography from 1888 (Ecce Homo) is also worth a read: "I know my destiny: one day my name will come to be associated with something monstrous... I am no man; I am dynamite." (Apols. for inaccuracy: I'm relying on memory there...)
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 12 Dec 2007, 9:25,
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