So, to an extent conscious, and to an extent sentient--for the blink of an eye--here I am contemplating with you Jung, Cora and Wotan, Goya, and Trump, before Global Warming throws my species, all species, under the bus that is unconsciousness (Global Warming which, I hasten to add, is the final "unconscious creation" of Homo sapiens).
It doesn't even matter that their Christmas campaign for Morrisons saw them needlessly murdering a sentient being for kicks.
For many of us, the idea of using any sentient being for experimentation has already crossed the "squirm" threshold.
To torture any sentient being for sport and then to justify it by citing the number of people employed in the slaughter is obscene.
But if there is something bloodthirsty in stalking, insofar as I – with zero kills to my name – experienced it, it is not the infliction of suffering but the willingness to kill a sentient creature for the satisfaction of finding one's own food.
A few people from Brooklyn said they were frightened of Howdy Doody, but they were lumped in with the residents, evident in every borough, who suffer from pediophobia, or "fear of the false representation of sentient beings". For them, the organizers rounded up about eighty dummies, which lurk spookily in dark corners in each of the five haunted houses.
One user, Sentient, called for a "permanent succession": "Why should this site and Kos profit from the traffic we add to DailyKos, and the sense by outsiders that it represents the netroots as a whole?" the blogger asked, adding later, "But I just don't see how people come back together on a daily basis after a falling out like this".
We are inflicting intense suffering on highly sentient creatures for studies that often provide questionable results, she believes.
Piers Morgan: A dimly remembered TV phantasm who serves as a sentient justification for the American Revolution, Morgan hosted a show on CNN years ago before poor ratings led to his cancellation.
