Thoughts from ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee (as adapted and illustrated by Fred Fordham): No, don’t shoot any birds at all, mockingbirds or not – not for fun, or for sports. To do so is to mock the birds shot, to cheapen their lives, to see them to be of...

Cuteness: Super Short Story #516 He thought of creating a morphing animation, of a picture of the cutest animal in her eyes, which becomes the tastiest animal in her opinion, which loops back to the cutest animal. Then, he will ask her where would she draw the line, that divides when the...

Trick question: Where do you draw the line? Right answer: What line? There is no need to draw a line at all! May we love all sentient beings best we...

‎ ‘Hi guys, i need to ask you a huge favor. Please circulate this photo on your Facebook profiles and send it to your friends. We need to find these people and make them pay for the abuse and pain they are inflicting on innocent animals. We don’t know what country they are at, but...

I can’t remember which comic the above panel is from. A vampire (if I remember correctly) laments to a vampire slayer, ‘We eat to survive! Do you avenge for cows and fish too? What have we done wrong? Who are you to judge us?’ Not that there are real vampires, if I become...

A reply to a Buddhist friend, who chose to get pest control to exterminate lice-like insects that plagued her house, which bit her family members badly too. They were traced to being centred on baby birds hidden in a pipe… Very often, struggle as we might to see all sentient beings as...

True that shark fin is quite tasteless and lacking in nutrition. 1. Every animal that is killed needlessly was in its last moments an endangered one – even if not in terms of the species. (Applies to humans too.) 2. Every animal killed for any other parts or all of its parts is still a...

If Caesar* was ‘dumb’, he would be downtrodden, discriminated. If Caesar was ‘normal’, he would be neglected, discriminated. If Caesar was ‘smart’, he would be feared, discriminated. * Caesar is a highly ‘evolved’ ape in ‘The Rise of the...

Is an endangered species (vampires) that endangers another species (humans) justified? If vampires exist and are endangered, would humans strive to protect and feed them? Is it monstrous to kill monsters, or to not kill monsters? Humans endanger other species too, while protecting some. Why...

The moral of Kafka’s short story ‘The Metamorphosis’ eluded me for some time. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Metamorphosis for outline) About the terror and tragedy of a man morphing into a bug and being ostracised by others,what embedded messages are there? I think...