Why is taste, the crudest of our senses, exempted from the ethical rules that govern our other senses?

Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.

Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, user’s manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest - and yet it is all these things.

It is better to lose than never to have had.

We all choose things, and we also all choose against things. I want to be the kind of person who chooses for more than chooses against.

This isn't animal experimentation, where you an imagine some proportionate good at the other end of the suffering. This is what we feel like eating. Tell me something: Why is taste, the crudest of our sense, exempted from the ethical rules that govern our other sense? If you stop and think about it, it's crazy. Why doesn't a horny person has as strong a claim to raping an animal as a hungry one does to killing and eating it?

When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.