Our daily meat I

A few years ago, a bona fide thinker from our country publicly rebelled about the “militancy” of vegans or vegetarians, which disturbs the cheerful consumer of sausage and steak at the table. He even overbids, saying that vegans have no conscience or philosophy about their diet, which distinguishes them from monks, for example, whose fasting has a spiritual dimension, which makes it honorable and understandable. What about vegans? What annoyed Bonom the most was the idea that vegans behave as if they have a moral superiority over carnivores. Which in reality…

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The case of Ana Oros

I didn’t imagine that in this case too, someone would be able to say that it was the woman’s fault. It just wouldn’t have occurred to me. If someone had been attacked by a bear in the forest, you can certainly partly say that the man is to blame, that he is practically walking on the territory of the wild animal. But even here the term blame doesn’t fit… you can’t tell someone to stay at home if they like to walk in the woods, especially since they’ve probably been there a thousand times before and nothing happened. Maybe three or four times he met the bear and the bear left. Or the man, or both. A violent encounter of this type, unless the man provokes the animal, is very rare and is almost an accident. Only if the bear kills a hunter do we return to the paradigm of guilt.
Which fault falls, of course, on the…

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