"Republican," "Christian," And "Asshole" Shouldn't Be Substitutes For Compassion
Unless you live in Tennessee, where letting people die of HIV/AIDS is just another day at the office
It is my sincere desire that my research and hard work will help create a world where we all learn to walk this Earth, safe, enlightened and free from the perils of cruelty, ignorance, and all the other dark and sinister forces, which make assholes possible.
Alexei Maxim Russell, Alexei Maxim Russell's Field Guide to Assholes
If you had an incurable disease, you’d probably hope that medical science would exhaust all known (and a few unknown) resources, in hopes of finding a cure, no? If you came across people with an incurable disease, I suspect you’d want to do everything you could to help them out. That’s what decent, caring, compassionate people do. And it’s not that difficult to give a damn.