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  • It’s hard as hell, but for me it comes down to this: we have to decide if they’re suffering so much that death would be a relief for them. Since we don’t have a common language, all we can do is go by what other signs and indicators are available. I don’t entirely trust veterinarians to make that decision, because in the past it has seemed to me that they tend to err on the side of euthanasia.

    I’ve done it both ways. Either way, it hurts.





  • Ironically I was called an “Uncle Tom atheist” by the then-president of American Atheists (himself a New Atheist, I believe), because I attended a Unitarian Universalist Church at the time. And also because I advocated mutual understanding rather than his own position, which was to mock believers. But he was trying to sell his book.

    That said, the audience seemed to much prefer my approach.