Regan’s position in The Case for Animal Rights has the same limitation as Singer’s utilitarianism. This is evident in Regan’s lifeboat example. “Imagine 0ve survivors are on a lifeboat. Because of limits of size, the boat can only support four. All weigh approximately the same and would take up approximately the same amount of space. Four of the 0ve are normal adult human beings. The 0fth is a dog. One must be thrown overboard or all will perish. Who should it be?” Regan’s answer is that “no reasonable person would suppose that the dog has a ‘right to life’ that is equal to the humans’.”26 The dog should unquestionably be thrown overboard, because “the harm that death is, is a function of the opportunities for satisfaction that it forecloses, and no reasonable person would deny that the death of any of the four humans would be a greater prima facie loss, and thus a greater prima facie harm, than would be true in the case of the dog.”27 Moreover, “numbers make no diference in this case. A million dogs ought to be cast overboard if that is necessary to save the four normal humans.”28
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To be or not to be, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them. To die - to sleep,
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-acke and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to: 'tis a
In South America, many tribes take ayahuasca to foresee the future, settle disputes, decipher enemy plans, cast or remove spells, or insure the fidelity of their women. Sensations of death and sepa ration of body and soul are sometimes experienced during a dreamlike trance.
Hallucinogenic Plants - A Golden Guide
I type out a text: Death-Cast called me. Maybe you can too.
Nah, I can’t be a dick and send that.
I correct myself: Death-Cast called me. Can you call me back?
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Bahtsız Bedevi Henry VII
On 2 April 1502 Prince Arthur died at Ludlow. Henry VII and Queen Elizabeth were devastated. ...Arthur's death was a blow from which the king would never recover.
...But this was nothing to the misery that followed on 11 February 1503, when Queen Elizabeth also died, following the premature birth of her last child, a girl named Katherine.
In less than eighteen months, all his plans for the future of his dynasty had collapsed. The shadow cast by Arthur's death was long and dark, and it changed the whole character of Henry VII's reign. His mood shifted from celebratory to suspicious.
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My soul wants to fly away
When your Presence calls it so sweetly,
My soul wants to take flight
When you whisper, "Arise."
A fish wants to dive from dry land
into the ocean
when it hears the roaring waves.
A falcon wants to return from the forest
to the King's wrist
when it hears the drum beating
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