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11/24/2007: "Morality is fear"

What does, or ought to, separate us then is our highly developed sense of morality, a primal understanding of good and bad, of right and wrong, of what it means to suffer not only our own pain—something anything with a rudimentary nervous system can do—but also the pain of others. That quality is the distilled essence of what it means to be human.

[ Morality is being afraid that what happens to others will happen to us. ]



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