It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.

Certain types of loudmouthism should be a capital offense among decent people.

Avoid making irrevocable decisions while tired or hungry.

Rarest of all is the man who can and does reason at all times, quickly, accurately, inclusively, despite hope or fear or bodily distress, without egocentric bias or thalmic disturbance, with correct memory, with clear distinction between fact, assumption, and non-fact.

Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws - always for other fellow. A murky part of us, something we had before we came down out of trees, and failed to shuck when we stood up.