The people who do the right thing because it's in their nature to do so are good people.
The people who do the wrong thing because it's in their nature to do so are sick people.
The people who do the right thing out of fear of posthumous retribution are bad people.
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"For thousands of years humans were oppressed - as some of us still are - by the notion that the universe is a marionette whose strings are pulled by a god or gods, unseen and inscrutable." - Carl Sagan
Freedom consonant with responsibility.
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