Matías López

“If we can prevent something bad, without sacrificing anything of comparable significance, we ought to do it.”
― Peter Singer, The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically

“How can we distinguish what is biologically determined from what people merely try to justify through biological myths? A good rule of thumb is ‘Biology enables, Culture forbids.’ Biology is willing to tolerate a very wide spectrum of possibilities. It’s culture that obliges people to realize some possibilities while forbidding others. Biology enables women to have children – some cultures oblige women to realize this possibility. Biology enables men to enjoy sex with one another – some cultures forbid them to realize this possibility. Culture tends to argue that it forbids only that which is unnatural. But from a biological perspective, nothing is unnatural. Whatever is possible is by definition also natural. A truly unnatural behavior, one that goes against the laws of nature, simply cannot exist.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, קיצור תולדות האנושות

“You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“hombre que se jacta de conocer la voluntad de Dios y está dispuesto a cumplirla a toda costa es el hombre más peligroso del mundo».”
― Ken Follett, Una columna de fuego