“Food conditions the nature of the mind. Mind guides the thinking. Thinking results in action. Actions lead to commensurate or matching results and effects. This chain of action between the food we eat and the results of our actions highlights the fact that meat eating leads to beastly actions and the concomitant evil effects.” ThinkingMindFactsActionEvilResultsConditionsEffectsEatingGuidesChainsMeatOur ActionsHighlightsMatchingBeastlyMeat Eating Author:Sathya Sai Baba
“The modification of prejudice takes a long time, and occurs as the result of a thousand things that happen to the prejudiced person - things he sees and hears and reads, people he talks to, and places he visits. Any given reformer must be content to take a small and obscure place in a chain of cumulative pressures.” PeoplePersonsLongHappensGivenResultsThousandLong TimePrejudicePressureChainsObscureReformersModificationCumulative Book:Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro Source: Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro
“Science has long been in the value business. Despite a widespread belief to the contrary, scientific validity is not the result of scientists abstaining from making value judgments; rather, scientific validity is the result of scientists making their best efforts to value principles of reasoning that link their beliefs to reality, through reliable chains of evidence and argument.” LongRealityValuesBeliefResultsEffortJudgmentEvidenceArgumentScientistContraryDespiteChainsReasoningLinksObjectivityValidityBest EffortAbstaining Author:Sam Harris