Alex Willcox

Consider this: We can’t personally love every human on this planet, and I’m sure there are many that we wouldn’t even care for, but it’s wrong to intentionally harm or exploit humans nonetheless. Rape, slavery, abuse — none of it is ever justifiable. This is not because we personally love the people that suffer this abuse (like we love our individual pets), but because every living being should be free from torture, free from exploitation, free from intentional suffering at the hands of another.

I am vegan because in looking into the eyes of a pig on the way to slaughter, I feel its pain as my own. Not because I am sensitive or naive — as some would suggest — but because empathy is one of the most useful tools I have. It allows me to place myself in the perspective of others, and in any exploitation or tragedy, we m…

It’s rather extraordinary that he has made it virtually unacceptable to care that for the first time in history a woman is poised to win the Democratic nomination and seems likely to become the president; we are told it should not matter to us that representation of the half of this country that has been excluded from the presidency for the entirety of its existence is within reach. It’s not supposed to matter that a woman who has been a leader for women’s rights and reproductive rights around the globe, and who has broken so much ground for women, an actual feminist, could possibly be our next president. Suddenly, as the country is on the verge of possibly, finally, at long last, nominating and even electing a woman, the most important thing ever is that we ignore that possibility and instead once again put a white guy in the office because he correctly observes the obvious — that we have a broken campaign finance system and we have income inequality?