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What I wanted was the part where people were asked to get together once a week to talk about how to be a good person and, like, hang out with their neighbors. It’s pretty amazing that apparently the only way to get people to do that is to
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“Framing illness as even involving morality seems to me a mistake, because of course cancer does not give a shit whether you are a good person. Biology has no moral compass. It does not punish the evil and reward the good. It doesn’t even know about evil and good.
Stigma is a way of saying, “You deserved to have this happen,” but implied within the stigma is also, “And I don’t deserve it, so I don’t need to worry about it happening to me.”
― Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
Stigma is a way of saying, “You deserved to have this happen,” but implied within the stigma is also, “And I don’t deserve it, so I don’t need to worry about it happening to me.”
― Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
Haley’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Haley’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
86 books
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18 friends
292 books
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455 books
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9 books
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992 books
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51 friends
112 books
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278 books
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24 friends
405 books
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16 friends
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