Thomas Reynolds

“In Terry Pratchett’s novel Carpe Jugulum, the character Granny Weatherwax expressed the principle more succinctly. A young man tried to tell Granny that the nature of sin was a complicated thing. She said that, no, it was very simple. “Sin,” she said, “is when you treat people as things.”
― Randall Munroe, How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems