A Cambridge professor, Simon Baron-Cohen, has written Zero Degrees of Empathy: A new theory of human cruelty. In this review, the author explains the professor’s ideas.
Read Why a lack of empathy is the root of all evil, on Independent.co.uk.
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hens
my eggs are in the frig. i used to have a hen that was the best little mother, she hatched out dozens of chicks, I named her Fertile Myrtle….Ox the duckys are all your’s quack guack..
Ox Drover
How can I EVER tell the children that their daddy doesn’t want them? Oh, woe is me!!!!! Woe is my poor father’less ducklings! LOL hee hee
Well, soon D is off for a weekend of male bonding at Scout Camp training and I’m here on my own for the weekend…I feel like I can run naked around the house Whooooopie!!!!! Better not though, might make the dog go blind! The cat will be neurotic anyway since she will think I have “done away with” him because he is gone for a few nights….for a guy who doesn’t particularly like cats, he is sure a fool over her and she is HIS cat thank you….hardly tolerates me and I’m the one that saved her from a fate worse than death—a 4 year old!
one/joy_step_at_a_time
Oxy – nice to get the play by play on your chicks. having new life around us is so good for the soul.
Eva
What a mess. How has the eggs, the ducks, the baby ducks?
I want ducks and hens, too! But i have no room. Unless i moved to the States…The psychopathic teacher wants us to move there to teach Spanish, as assistant teacher. The bug is into a company, inside the university, that has some agreements with some universities in the EEUU. But the States are a bit far and I’m not even sure i’d like to teach Spanish grammar. Boring to teach grammar. Don’t you think so?
hens
duck soup?
hens
Eva I need help with my grammar and english ….I have problems with when to use to or too.
Eva
Oh my~ You’ve already adquired psychopathic traits.
Who eats his own children? A psychopath does.
Ox Drover
Hens, “too” is used when you can or could use the words ALSO. LIke I went to town too Or I went to town ALSO.
Lots of people have trouble with “their” and “there” and “they’re”
They’re means THEY -ARE (a contraction) and THEIR means it belongs to THEM…so you would say “They’re going to their house and they will be THERE a while.” Or “They are going to the house that belongs to them.” Egg donor used to teach English grammar….
Yea, BTW who would eat their own children? Yep, a psychopath! or in this case a DUCK-o-path!
Yea, I love little baby critters….it makes it spring, baby critters and setting out garden plants. Couldn’t help myself today when I got out of my little medical procedure I went and bought some more plants and herbs….actually has been a wonderful day! My little procedure went quickly, no pain or discomfort, they even got the IV in in one stick, and no hang over from the medication and I don’t remember diddly about it all…so you know, after all my frustration yesterday today more than made up for it.
hens
thanx teach for the english lesson…
Eva
Hens, believe me in English I have more grammar problems than you 😀
To is a preposition: To go TO France. I gave it TO you. Too is an adverb that means something similar to also, but also is used with present/past perfect in the middle of the two verbs “I have also phoned his friend”. After the verb to be “I am also Spanish”. After modal verbs “I can also sing (though very badly)”. And surely more cases i’m forgeting.
And too is also used in possitive sentences at the end of the sentence “I am Spanish too” “She can come with us too”
It’s pure grammar convention. Something to be learned by heart. Also the pronunciation is different, the preposition “to” is pronounced /tu/ short /u/ and the adverb too is pronounced long /u:/. But you know better than me the pronounciation is different!
You know Hens that a native speaker who speaks 2 or more languages both since little is called a bilingual simple and that other who learned the second one once s/he is older is called a compound bilingual? Simple the former one, but not simplistic!! A native speaker always knows much more than a compound one.
Now adopt your eggs and pay baby support 😀