http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/losing-our-humanity-politics-and-the-death-of-compassion/Content?oid=2695015 Comments On: Losing our humanity: Politics and the death of compassion by Eva Hayward en-us Copyright 2013 Indy Week. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Indy Week readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Indy Week. pweber@indyweek.com (Indy Week Webmaster) Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:01 -0400 Sat, 25 May 2013 04:00:00 -0400 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss "If empathy is identification with someone's suffering, compassion is imagining oneself in the circumstances that produce someone's suffering."

compassion is raking out our responsibilities, liabilities, and how we might be able to do or imagine more.
Posted by oona]]> Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:19:55 -0500 Indy Week http://www.rpaforall.org/rights.html

Extending rights from humans to other animals not only protects these other animals from human-caused harm, but it also is beneficial for us humans and the natural environment all life depends upon.
Posted by Brandon Becker]]> Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:46:16 -0500 Indy Week Posted by Katie King]]> Mon, 07 Nov 2011 10:23:42 -0500 Indy Week I’ve been interested lately in theorists who posit that humans are dependent on technology and culture in the same way that other animals depend on instinct and on physical attributes such as fur, claws, teeth, and speed for survival (in the book, The Moral Menagerie, for example, philosopher Marc R. Fellenz cites deep ecologist John Livingston for this idea). Culture then is not something humans produced so much as a species characteristic, not necessarily any more interesting than the adaptive traits of other animals.
For me, the relevance of this observation to your essay is that it highlights how unusually interdependent humans are as a species, how radically vulnerable we are without each other, not just during our comparatively long childhood, but throughout our lives.
Posted by K Weller]]> Mon, 07 Nov 2011 00:06:51 -0500 Indy Week Posted by Rataplan]]> Sun, 06 Nov 2011 14:46:26 -0500 Indy Week