Pratchett Quote

[lissa_dora]

Because Robin posted this, because Natasha posted it and it is so true that it needs a wider reading audience:

"It's not as simple as that. It's not a black and white issue. There are so many shades of gray. . . ."

"There's no greys, only white that's got grubby. I'm surprised you don't know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people as

Comments

[eseme]

Glad you like it.

Carpe Juglum is the one in which Praatchett parodies vampires, thus the title. I like Granny Weatherwax a lot- should I be alarmed that I identify with a 70 year old recluse who happens to be a witch?

[lissa_dora]

Should you be worried? Only a little ;-)

[sad1225]

So I've been wondering. Is it feelings or thoughts that makes a person a person.

I mean I've had a number of dogs who have been really emotive. Does that mean that my dog is a person, or that many people aren't?

I've always thought of my dog as a person. I've always thought of my roommate's cat as something to eat.

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Seriously though,

The quite above is illustrative of the attitude that made it necessary for Rand to write Atlast Shrugged.

There are people (like myself) who live in a world of things. My dog is a furry faced thing that I like to go running with. My wife is a thing that means more to me than any other thing. My body is the thing that the thing I call myself lives in.

Each person is a set of attributes, some good, some bad. We make value judgements on people -- like the people that are full of good attributes, dislike the people who aren't.

And lots of people really hate us for this. We're the monsters.