No worries, happy to comment. I'm newish to veganism (1.5yrs) and I arrived for the health benefits...the moral and environmental benefits are added bonuses and I'm trying to refine my understanding of both, your articles are helpful to this end.

Your previous article about a superior race was quite poignant and had some fantastic points and thought challenges in it. I think you're spot on - empathy can and should apply to animals in order for people to achieve perspective.

I think you're way of expanding evil into a more applicable concept is quite concrete/instructive. I doubt you'd find many people that disagree with: an offense is particularly reprehensible (and cowardly) when targeted toward those with the fewest means of defense. It seems almost self-evident, now, the challenge is to get people to accept this idea across species perimeters.