"The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people
exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in the great
suffering of animals, and second because it results in an incalculably
great impoverishment of the human spirit."
"All education should be directed toward the refinement of the
individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans
everywhere, but to all things whatsoever. In the societies of the
Western world compassionate intelligence is encouraged in girls - in
boys it is taboo. The taboo on tenderness in which boys are conditioned,
the emphasis on 'manliness,' 'machoism,' plays havoc with the male's
capacity for compassionate intelligence. Tenderness is considered to be
feminine, and that is sufficient to remove it from the repertoire of
masculine behavior. Indeed, things have reached such a pass in the
Western world that many men seem to have lost all understanding of its
meaning. The masculine world would substitute for it the idea of
'justice.' The difficulty with that is that there is not much compassion
in their justice, and justice without compassion is not justice at all."
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