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Even our earliest espousers of human rights limit them to life, liberty, and the pursuit of satisfactions. They do not guarantee posterity or immortality.

— Sheri S. Tepper Six Moon Dance (1998)

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The sooner we can separate salvageable skeptics from self-righteous absolutists, the sooner we can move along.

The Visitor (2002)

If a person torturing and killing people is evil, why are gods who torture and kill people called good?

The Fresco (2000)

“This is not philosophy, this is reality. Will you please keep in mind what’s going on!”

Six Moon Dance (1998)

Fear needn’t be grounded in fact to cause problems.

Gibbon's Decline & Fall (1996)

Man has always tortured in the name of his gods and committed atrocities in the name of his culture.

Sideshow (1992)

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