UPDATE: Lewis, the koala rescued from a bushfire in Australia by a woman, has died, according to the hospital where he was being treated pic.twitter.com/b9CFaqpoBj
They cared, they tried—-the laws of nature beat them—-as it has been for 4.5 billion years and will continue, even though humans seem to think they’re immune.
It’s hard to balance the long view– what we could call ‘the view from nowhere’ (though Thomas Nagel didn’t quite mean the same thing when he coined the phrase) with our emotional responses to individual suffering. But being confronted by individual suffering that illustrates a broader issue can help people grasp the significance of that issue.
November 27, 2019 at 6:57 am
Buggar Poop!
And a shed more innocent creatures, and people, to come.
November 27, 2019 at 10:19 am
They cared, they tried—-the laws of nature beat them—-as it has been for 4.5 billion years and will continue, even though humans seem to think they’re immune.
November 27, 2019 at 12:21 pm
It’s hard to balance the long view– what we could call ‘the view from nowhere’ (though Thomas Nagel didn’t quite mean the same thing when he coined the phrase) with our emotional responses to individual suffering. But being confronted by individual suffering that illustrates a broader issue can help people grasp the significance of that issue.