Recent content by Orange Seeds

I am open to the empirical data that show good reason for believing that animals we eat have the type of cognition I have argued is valuable. It is not good enough to suggest possible bias in not having that data if the goal is to revolutionize human culture, consumption and economy. We have a...

If you'd like to point to a critical assumption or oversight then do that. This post as-is is subject to its own accusation. My point is that humans are capable of making decisions on the basis of conscious inputs about why their life is valuable and how to conduct it. Livestock cannot...

Suffering isn't bad by definition. That's an ethical claim and requires argument. There are actually many cultures and individuals who consider suffering to be morally important and meaningful. I don't dispute that animals have nervouse systems and can feel basic emotions and what-not. I mean...

Things are valuable insofar as someone decides they are valuable. Most animals are not conscious of their physical or physchological state. This means there is no prima facie obligation not to damage their physical or physchological state. Animals don't make decisions about their lives...

Sonic Youth.

It's in the post and on the way to San Diego. It will be a while in the mail, however, as I went with the cheapest option. It should arrive within two weeks.

Got the camera today. It shouldn't take long for me to send it off again. I'm just gonna take a picture looking out by bedroom window! I'm away in Calgary all weekend though so that will delay me putting it in the post.

I felt it! I was on the third floor of the Buchanan buildings out at UBC. I thought the shaking was construction or something.

mhmm... You can't go about holding an extreme position on something and then refuse to defend it to all challengers because they are typical enviro-socialists or apparently conveyed an unkind tone. This is a mark of high anti-intellectualism. In the face of such log-headed stubbornness and...

Two former Canucks died this off-season: Demitra and Rick Rypien. This is all kinds of sad.

Day 8 I know the lyrics to dozens of songs so I just picked one that I particularly felt like sharing. xBjiYZiv5RE

Day 7: Event I also find this one perplexingly difficult. I think music is predominantly mental for me or something. I don't really connect songs to anything but ideas and emotions. The album version of song (which apparently EMI won't let Youtube show) reminds me of a pretty important...

Bah! Songs don't remind me of places... In a similar vein to above, the Vancouver Canucks, for most of my childhood, skated out before games to U2's Where The Streets Have No Name. When I hear that song it takes me back to sitting inside GM Place for preseason games. I Couldn't find a good...

A song that reminds me of someone. qORYO0atB6g This is a song that very nostalgically reminds of my best friend in early childhood. "Bodymovin" and "Girls" invoke similar nostalgia. Haven't seen that fellow in years. Last I heard he was a still illiterate meth addict. True story.

Life in a Glass House. Amnesiac was their best album in my opinion.