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Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong

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“I've never seen... people take so much pleasure in inflicting pain on others! Do it!! More!! Play your sick little game!! YOU LOVE VIOLENCE, DON'T YOU?! I DO TOO!! Nothing excites me like tormenting the helpless! GO ON, ENJOY IT!! Your doing whats just! You don't need to hold back!! Its just like you said, Hange! This is what must be done!! to bring about justice!! Everythings so much easier if you think of it like that!! Doesn't it feel incredible?! You can think of yourself as doing something great!! Your monsters!! Titans are cute little babies next to you!! But... you don't scare me!! I...!! I...!! I have the king.. I protected the king with my comrades... for years... I believe... in the security of the walls... and the king... our actions... weren't misguided... or so I... thought. ...so this is how much it hurts... just tortue me to death... its all... I ever did with... my bloodstained life... " My comrades... This seems to be the end of the line for me... but... I know you'll find a way to beat these *******s. I leave the rest to you... these walls... our great king... please, protect them from war.”

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Author:Hajime Isayama
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“People who live wholly urbanized lives, spending little time outdoors and rarely stopping to notice life that is not human-made, suffer emotionally and spiritually, cut off, as they are, from our souls' well-spring. We need more than the flat world born of our synthetically directed thoughts - our walls and cubicles, television and computer screens. We need to feed out senses with sunshine and wind, night and rain, hills, trees, and flowing water. We must nurture what master tracker and nature photographer Paul Rezendes calls the 'wild within, the larger sense of who we are...the whole of the conscious universe.”

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“Cancer, we have discovered, is stitched into our genome. Oncogenes arise from mutations in essential genes that regulate the growth of cells. Mutations accumulate in these genes when DNA is damaged by carcinogens, but also by seemingly random errors in copying genes when cells divide. The former might be preventable, but the latter is endogenous. Cancer is a flaw in our growth, but this flaw is deeply entrenched in ourselves. We can rid ourselves of cancer, then, only as much as we can rid ourselves of the processes in out physiology that depend on growth-aging, regeneration, healing, reproduction.”

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“We are chemical apes: having discovered the capacity to extract, purify, and react molecules to produce new and wondrous molecules, we have begun to spin a new chemical universe around ourselves. Our bodies our cells, our genes are thus being immersed and reimmersed in a changing flux of molecules -pesticides, pharmaceutical drugs, plastics, cosmetics, estrogens, food products, hormones, even novel forms of physical impulses, such as radiation and magnetism. Some of these, inevitably, will be carcinogenic. We cannot wish this world away; our task, the, is to sift through it vigilantly to discriminate bona fide carcinogens from innocent and useful bystanders.”

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“When one develops one’s natural needs, desires, inclinations, and capacities in ways that harmonise and unify one’s inner psychological states and fits these into a grand natural order that facilitates successful action in the world, and when one reaches the point where one regularly and spontaneously achieves these dual aims, one feels that one is one’s element, has found one’s home, and is performing one’s proper role in the world. Such action generates a special feeling of joy or happiness not only for those who behave this way but also for those who observe such behaviour.”

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Book:Oneness: East Asian Conceptions of Virtue, Happiness, and How We Are All Connected
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