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Only Read the Fine Quotes #6

If you crush a cockroach, you’re a hero. If you crush a beautiful butterfly, you’re a villain. Morals have aesthetic criteria.
— Friedrich Nietzsche


For the record, I’m not sure I completely agree. Generally, right is right and wrong is wrong. But I do think when we react instinctively to things, even more things, we impart our own “aesthetic criteria”. I don’t think it’s necessary to judge that… just to be aware.

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