I believe that decisions about the timing and manner of death belong to the individual as a human right. I believe it is wrong to withhold medical methods of terminating life painlessly and swiftly when an individual has a rational and clear-minded sustained wish to end his or her life.
A.C. GraylingChristian churches and Muslim groups have no more right to have their say than women's institutes or trades unions. The government has actively encouraged faith-based education, and therefore given a megaphone to religious voices and fundamentalists.
A.C. GraylingAnd I say, the meaning of life is what you make it. There will be as many different meaningful lives as there are people to live them.
A.C. GraylingInculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal.
A.C. GraylingThe wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world.
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