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Intelligence is the only moral guide.
-Robert Green Ingersoll
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Intelligence Is The Only Moral Guide.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Intelligence is the only moral guide.
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"judge not, that ye be not judge"... is an abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check one gives to others in exchange for a moral blank check one expects for oneself. there is no escape from the fact that men have to make choices; so long as men have to make choices, there is no escape from moral values; so long as moral values are at stake, no moral neutrality is possible. to abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accesory to the torture and murder of his victims. the moral principle to adopt... is: "judge, and be prepared to be judged."
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Take for example providing a guide dog for a blind person. that's a good thing to do, right? all right. it is a good thing to do. but you have to think what else you could do with the resources. it costs about $40,000 to train a guide dog and train the recipient so that the guide dog can be an effective help to a blind person. it costs somewhere between 20 and $50 to cure a blind person in a developing country if they have trachoma. so you do the sums, and you could provide one guide dog for one blind american or you could cure between 400 and 2,000 people of blindness.
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My faith in the constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total, and i am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminuation, the subversion, the destruction of the constitution. it is reason and not passion which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.
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