Word: sentient
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their prowhaling bluster, Japan and Norway are well aware of how many people romanticize whales as sentient creatures that should be spared the horror of harpooning. A recent poll found that 52% of Norwegians worried about international boycotts should the country resume commercial whaling. Says Richard Fuglsang, managing director of the sleeping-bag company Ajungilak: "Foreign sports-equipment dealers tell us straight out that they dare not sell Norwegian goods...
...belief that animals cannot think as a justification for arguing that they do not have moral rights. It is one thing to treat animals as mere resources if they are presumed to be little more than living robots, but it is entirely different if they are recognized as fellow sentient beings. Working out the moral implications makes a perfect puzzle for a large-brained, highly social species like...
...idea literally exploded out of my head. A comic strip called The Collective Intelligence of Crisco. Yeah. It would be a strip revolving around a twisted love triangle of the sentient, sexy vat of vegetable shortening, named Cris, a sensitive stick of Mazola margerine and the lovely Florence Henderson, Wesson oil spokesmodel. In addition to working through their various affairs of the heart, they would spend every free moment tirelessly fighting to free the world of lard...
...conducted by animals implicitly challenges the notion that this is an acceptable form of sexual expression; the masks draw a visible barrier between reason and desire. And as if that were not obvious enough, the film also includes a running dialogue between a man (er...dog) and his gargantuan, sentient penis. While the depictions spring from a liberal attitude towards sex, the ethics motivating them are conservative...
What the current hubbub over political lying ignores or drowns out is the fact that there are disabling truths, messy realities that positively stymie adequate response unless their particulars are reduced to deceptive simplicities. Every sentient human being knows this from daily experience. What has shattered in the public sphere, as epitomized by the Bush-Clinton campaign, is the once agreed-upon etiquette of lying...