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You rate what other people think, feel, and do—in accordance with your own and general social standards—as “good” or “bad.” But you never rate them, their personhood, their being. You
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“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”
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