Under what circumstances is it moral for a group to do that which is not moral for a member of that group to do alone?

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.

The brown monkey's instinct to kill is correct; such men are dangerous to all monkey customs.

The Universe was a silly place at best...but the least likely explanation for it was the no-explanation of random chance, the conceit that abstract somethings 'just happened' to be atoms that 'just happened' to get together in ways which 'just happened' to look like consistent laws and some configurations 'just happened' to possess self-awareness and that two 'just happened' to be the Man from Mars and a bald-headed old coot with Jubal inside.

Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument.

I'm always suspicious of disinterested interest.

I believe in my neighbors. I know their faults and I know that their virtues far outweigh their faults.