Re:New UK Law Mandates Organ Donation by Default Unless Expl...
by barry-cotter on Saturday April 24, 2021 @03:50AM
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So are all the other rights.
> Death:
Yes. As practice, you have to start out learning to believe the little lies.
> Susan:
So we can believe the big ones?
> Death:
Yes. Justice, mercy, duty. That sort of thing.
> Susan:
They're not the same at all!
> Death:
You think so? Then take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and THEN show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. And yet... you try to act as if there is some ideal order in the world. As if there is some... some rightness in the universe by which it may be judged.
> Death: Yes. As practice, you have to start out learning to believe the little lies.
> Susan: So we can believe the big ones?
> Death: Yes. Justice, mercy, duty. That sort of thing.
> Susan: They're not the same at all!
> Death: You think so? Then take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and THEN show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. And yet... you try to act as if there is some ideal order in the world. As if there is some... some rightness in the universe by which it may be judged.
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