Is there any way to know of the injustice around oneself and not be spurred to action? Be elitist, be short-minded, be cruel; On the other hand, suicide or full open revolution are both suitable for subverting the power structure, although staying informed requires being alive.

If I recognize the suffering animals in industrial farm conditions undergo, these farms begin to look worse than concentration camps. At least Gypsies and Jews had a marginal chance to survive. I have difficulty eating animals that feel pain in a similar way to the difficulty I have eating infant babies or humans with disabilities.

Why not just stick to avoiding causing suffering for animals with nervous systems?

If you wish to have freedom as a woman in the modern world, the best thing you can do is not be born in an Islamic country. Moderate Muslim feminists are accusing Femen of going too far just as MLK was going too far in asking for racial equality in the United States. Of course, it must be said that he probably would not have been successful if his protest were done in the nude.

He raises a good point in that our own moods are easily projected onto the world.

This statement pulled me out of my depression-coma long enough to crack a smile. Thank you.

I also do the same in many cases where large responses already exist and my assertions would probably only serve to suffocate the airwaves with needless signals.

“A book is a suicide postponed.” -Emil Cioran, the most pessimistic philosopher to date. He makes Schopenhauer look like Nietzsche.