Flatlander

Chickens fly very well in low gravity.

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.

You should know by now, Hamilton. We bury everything. The sky is the enemy here. There’s meteors, radiation..spacecraft, for that matter.

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.