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Joe Gray

And he that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
— Gandalf in ‘The Fellowship of the Ring’

Here, I make a case for an approach to the study of insects and other arthropods that I will call compassionate entomology. My use of the first term in this construction follows its application in compassionate conservation, where it signifies the explicit consideration of the welfare and intrinsic va...