Flatlander

Happiness is beautiful, all by itself. A happy person is beautiful, per se.

You question my dispassionate judgment? Men have died for less!

So he was a little more callous than the rest of the world’s billions. But not much. Every voter had a bit of the organlegger in him. In voting the death penalty for so many crimes, the law makers had only bent to pressure from the voters. There was a spreading lack of respect for life, the evil side of transplant technology. The good side was a longer life for everyone. One condemned criminal could save a dozen deserving lives. Who could complain about that?

I see that you will never agree. I cannot help that. I can only read the evidence.

New technologies create new customs, new laws, new ethics, new crimes.

It’s damned embarrassing when you wake up with a girl and can’t remember her name.

I thought about it and got cold chills. Assassination is already a recognized branch of politics. If this got out—But that was the trouble; someone seemed to have thought of it already. If not, someone would. Someone always did.

When nobody gets rich, they call that a recession.