“We are not self-caused little gods.”
― Free Will
― Free Will
“If a flock of chickens is without water on a hot day, and all you have to do to prevent them from dying slowly and painfully is turn on a tap, you ought to turn it on. If to do so you have to walk a few extra steps in shoes that pinch your little toe, you ought to walk those few extra steps.”
― The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically
― The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically
“What evidence could possibly be put forward to show that one could have acted differently in the past?”
― Free Will
― Free Will
“So some respectable dodo in the Mauritius might have lorded it in his nest, and discussed the arrival of that shipful of pitiless sailors in want of animal food. “We will peck them to death tomorrow, my dear.”
― The War of the Worlds
― The War of the Worlds
“This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.”
― The War of the Worlds
― The War of the Worlds
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