Being a person is respect, because you're not a cat or a dog or a bunch of tulips, you're a human person and humanness isn't like something there can be different amounts of, it's maxed out from the start, total respect every time - kill one, kill a trainload, you're dissing the transcendental is all. Tom Stoppard
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Being human is not like something that can be different amounts of, it is maxed out from the start. It is total respect each time you kill one, kill a trainload of them.

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