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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.

— Jack Kevorkian

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This is a medical service. It always was.

I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.

Years of Minutes (2004)

My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.

Years of Minutes (2004)

Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.

Despite the solace of hypocritical religiosity and its seductive promise of an after-life of heavenly bliss, most of us will do anything to thwart the inevitable victory of biological death.

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