that environment."

The initial commuter numbers did not take into account fare evaders, people within the free tram zone and myki pass holders.

The Government was criticised earlier this week by residents in Melbourne's north, who said train drivers sounding their horns during the overnight services kept them awake last weekend.

Northcote resident Harry Blutstein organised a petition asking the Government to introduce quiet zones, similar to those in the United States.

"They said they'll have a consultation afterwards and they'll get feedback, so for the next 12 months, we've basically got to take it, and then we complain, which is crazy," he said.The agony of the rat or the slaughter of a calf remains present in thought not through pity but as the zone of exchange between man and animal in which something of one passes into the other. - Deleuze and Guattari, What Is Philosophy?

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Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Animals and the banality of evil

I had been teaching Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem in my Moral Philosophy class, and this is my first time teaching this book. On the second day of teaching it, I wondered how class discussion was going to happen, because I kinda felt that Arendt's points were both obvious and unobjectionable. Instead the class was split between those who were deeply critical of the idea of the banality of evil, and those, like myself, who found it