On political correctness:- A front line newspaper in Canada posted the photo of a languid-eyed pup on the front page. The news item went on to say that the group of living beings referred to as animals should henceforth be called companion animals. Pets, wildlife, vermin and animals were terms of abuse; the politically correct form to address them was free living, differentiated beings, and non-human animals.
This was the take by animal ethicists in their first academic journal dedicated to animal, beg your pardon, companimal ethics. Now my wife can legally call me a worm along with the so called “terms of abuse” or liberated words from companimal land.
My foot!:- Reinventing the wheel, or the circle of life. Till the time I was 25 I wore slippers or shoes only when I stepped out of the gates. Inside and outside the house I walked barefoot. Once a year, for seven years, I would go on a pilgrimage barefoot taking in my stride mountains, gravel, thorns, leeches [when it rains], hot rock surfaces, and anything that dared to step into my path. I wore a pair of slippers or shoes, depending on the occasion, otherwise. When I got my first job, I bought a pair of sneakers, and have been buying them every year. Last year I bought three of them along with other foot warmers and comforters. At home I had a padded slip on during winter time.
Yesterday my wife bought a hairy rug for the cooking area. I happened to step on it barefoot, it felt really nice. I stepped on the stone tile; that felt nice too. I also read a news item about a new technology in shoes; shoes shaped like the feet with separations for each toe called Vibram Five Fingers and talks about the health aspects of running [almost] barefoot. Do I have to pay $130-180 for walking barefoot?
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That was a very good one !!
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