There are all sorts of things that would be comforting. I expect an injection of morphine would be comforting... But to say that something is comforting is not to say that it's true.

I have never quite understood - and this is no doubt my failing - I never quite understood why you would read fiction to understand the human condition.

My thoughts, my beliefs, my feelings are all in my brain. My brain is going to rot.

Do humans have a different moral significance than cows in general?

What's wrong with being elitist if you are trying to encourage people to join the elite rather than being exclusive?

Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument.

If you want to do bad things, science is the most powerful way to do them.