There is nothing more dangerous than a shallow thinking compassionate person

To say that we mutually agree to coercion is not to say that we are required to enjoy it, or even to pretend we enjoy it.

In a competitive world of limited resources, total freedom of individual action is intolerable

Religious reasons, which is no reason. I notice Skeptic had a review of Dennett's book, Darwin's Dangerous Idea. Religious reasons amount to what Dennett terms "skyhooks." Do you believe in skyhooks? I don't.

Never globalize a problem if it can possibly be dealt with locally.

People are the quintessential element in all technology... Once we recognize the inescapable human nexus of all technology our attitude toward the reliability problem is fundamentally changed.

No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.