Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats. Religion is bribery and threats. Humans have morality. We don't need religion.
If you don't pay your taxes and you don't answer the warrant and you don't go to court, eventually someone will pull a gun. Eventually someone with a gun will show up. I want everything the government does to be done, I just want it to be done voluntarily.
The purpose of art is to collide the intellectual and visceral together at the highest speed possible.
My love of computers, besides being practical, is very direct and visceral. I love the way things look on the screen.
I don't believe in vengeance. Really, when all is said and done, I probably don't believe in punishment.
The vast majority of people who have guns never hurt anybody.
