Desmond Morris is a zoologist whose book CatLore (1993) is just one of his volumes to deal with cats. In this book he mentions that there are no black cats. He means domestic kitty cats. Any one you look at will have a white hair or hairs someplace. This is because, Morris says, the black cats a woman accused of witchcraft might have as pets, could only be put to death themselves, if they were totally black. So that white hair had a survival value for the cats. September 24, 1928, is Desmond Morris's birth date. We pray for his health.
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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