I can't recall exactly where I read this (my leaning is Harris' "The Moral Landscape"), but it's an interesting question. Something like, take the life of a serial killer. If you had grown up in his place, with all his memories and abuse and psychological damage, with his experiences and brain chemistry, is there any honest way at all to say that you would've ended up differently than him?
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
- Thomas Jefferson
