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“In each residue (the still uncovered butter dish, the table left dirty, the boredom of the return trip), we are escaping from the residue that we already are, from the unbearable fact that we are discarded every day, as nature’s and society’s leftovers, cast aside and thrown away after having been used. After we are gone, life leaves everything as it was; it makes a final arrangement without us, as we do with the remains of food from the countless breakfasts of our lives.”
― Discomfort and Moral Impediment: The Human Situation, Radical Bioethics and Procreation
― Discomfort and Moral Impediment: The Human Situation, Radical Bioethics and Procreation
“People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.”
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“Performing residual actions is to participate daily in small funeral ceremonies.”
― Discomfort and Moral Impediment: The Human Situation, Radical Bioethics and Procreation
― Discomfort and Moral Impediment: The Human Situation, Radical Bioethics and Procreation
“Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.”
― 1984
― 1984
“A human life has “rejectives” rather than objectives, a kind of movement more reactive than active, an escape rather than a search.”
― Discomfort and Moral Impediment: The Human Situation, Radical Bioethics and Procreation
― Discomfort and Moral Impediment: The Human Situation, Radical Bioethics and Procreation
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