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Jan 13, 2023Liked by Helen Dale

Thanks for such a fluid and readable treatment of a complicated set of facts. I’ve got a new goal: read The Golden Ass. A translation of course; which one is best for an easily distracted American high school teacher?

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"which leads to what is probably the only well-written bestiality scene in all literature."

Nothing that comes today will be more amusing than this.

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DEFINITELY not a society you can turn into animal liberationists… That is all.

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Jan 14, 2023Liked by Helen Dale

This is excellent - a combination of law, classics and ethics. Multiple niche interests combined is joyous

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Jan 14, 2023Liked by Helen Dale

re tip jars, I just posted this on the page on "Class and State", but in case you don't check old pages: Question (and I don't see an email to ask it). You linked to a Free Speech Union briefing listing things like payment processors, and I'm currently looking into options. However the document you linked to does *not* rate "Buy Me a Coffee”, and I don't seem to find it in a search. Are you sure that one is problematic, or was it Kofi that is listed that is problematic? One problem with most options is they don't protect anonymity for those who wish to use pen names, but Buy Me a Coffee does which is why I'm wondering about it. Even if someone creates a DBA name or a business entity: in most locations the owners of those are public information (and there is often not a way to create an anonymous entity elsewhere without needing to also register it locally in those locations). Thanks.

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Jan 17, 2023Liked by Helen Dale

Takes me back to a Philosophy of Art seminar in which the (brilliant) teacher excitedly asked, "what the Hell is going on that you can kill and eat an animal but you can't have sex with it?" I've a feeling we were discussing Singer at the time.

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