A column named "Believe It or Not," appeared for the first time, in the New York Globe, on December 19, 1918. Robert Ripley, the author, always swore his facts were checked for accuracy, even this item from a later date which typifies the appeal of his column, and I paraphrase: In Akola India, cats are held in such high regard that if a cat is accidentally killed, the person responsible must supply a replacement, a cat of solid gold, which statue is then ritually thrown into the sea.
Onora Sylvia O'Neill (August 23, 1941) is a British thinker. She studied at Oxford and received a doctorate from Harvard. After a noted career, in 1992, she accepted the post of Principal of N ewnham College, Cambridge, and since 2006 she has been Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge. Her 1997 paper, "Environmental Values, Anthroporphism, and Speciesism" contains a timely argument in which Dr. O'Neill, (she prefers that title to the "Baroness" to which her elevation to the peerage allows) points out inadequacies in the use of the term speciesism to argue against according humans more ethical rights than aspects of the non human world. A viewpoint that puts " a person torturing a cat is on a par with a cat torturing a bird," is not one she finds supportable. The link is to a downloadable version of this paper. We have this picture of Onora O'Neill, in 2002, at Newnham College: We meet in the Principal's lodge at Ne
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