Nature guide and Biologist here. Zoos that breed animals to live in captivity need to be shut down along with Barnum / Bailey’s and Seaworld. These animals spent millions of years coevolving with their ecosystems and should not be kept as displays. Reintroduction does not work either. Their habitats have proven…
You know....I don’t think I love this. Who is this aimed toward — teachers? Do we think teachers don’t try to intervene with troubled kids? Students? There were students interacting with this kid, and anyway, asking students to police the behavior of “creepy loner weirdos” is how you get bullying. (And I mean, say you…
Protip: paragraph breaks will make it seem a bit less like you’re in a cult.
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.
I get it too. The prevailing position in this country is that some people warrant zero compassion. When people commit heinous offenses it provokes rage that boxes out other sentiments. My intent is to have a mindset that I view as more expansive, which is that I can hate behavior but maintain compassion for the actor,…
You can have compassion for him and find the tone of this blog post to be kind of distasteful while also feeling for a woman he harassed. Zero prioritization required.
I had just finished Christmas dinner with my family when I got the call: “A picture of you is on the front page of…