The psychologist Jerome Kagan has argued that parenting has a threshold function: up until that threshold is crossed, the effects of a child's very early experience even out in the end. But parenting that crosses the threshold–abuse, stress, utter indifference–can sink in deep, especially if the baby remains in that environment. There's a lot to be said for this perspective on parenthood, not least that it offers well-meaning parents some relief from scaremongering. It also accounts for the astounding flexibility of the human infant: he is game for the craziest parenting stuff you can come up with. . Nicholas Day
Diversity is a survival factor for the community itself. A community of a hundred million species can survive anything short of total global catastrophe. Within that hundred million will be thousands that could survive a global temperature drop of twenty degrees–which would be a lot...
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Daniel Quinn
There is but one supremacy... and it remains known and unknown to it's human creation... of many hues, shapes and sizes.
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T.F. Hodge
If we can't write diversity into sci-fi, then what's the point? You don't create new worlds to give them all the same limits of the old ones.
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Jane Espenson
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Anonymous
Embrace all.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
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