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I'm a curious human being, and I love things that are a little bit off. ”
To me, the most important thing in life is to be a human being. Second is acting. ”
I'm a 'specist.' I hate the human race. Of course, therefore, I hate myself the most, because I am the least of the human race. I'm the product of 6 million years of evolution? Come on, man. ”
You shouldn't say 'animals' to distinguish between humans and non-humans. We are all animals. ”
The price we are willing to pay for safety cannot be infinite. It is distasteful to put a price on human life, but the more we spend on safety, the less we will have for our other goals. ”
The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval. ”
The belief that the animals exist because God created them - and that he created them so we can better meet our needs - is contrary to our scientific understanding of evolution and, of course, to the fossil record, which shows the existence of non-human primates and other animals millions of years before there were any human beings at all. ”
If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library. ”
We see things like reciprocity which are fairly central to our view of ethics. But if you're talking about a set of worked-out rules on what we are supposed to do then, yes, it is a human product. ”
The most universal challenge that we face is the transition from seeing our human institutions as machines to seeing them as embodiments of nature. ”