"Can any claim be more specious than to suggest that we
want more objectivity and less emotion in guiding the course of our personal
and collective lives? Emotion is not a defect in an otherwise perfect reasoning
machine. Reason, unfettered from human feeling, has led to as many horrors as
any crusader's zeal. What use is pity in a world maximizing efficiency and
productivity? Scientific husbandry tells us to weed out the sick, the infirm, and
the weak. The ruthless efficiency of euthanasia initiatives and ethnic
cleansing are but the programmatic application of Nietzsche's point: from any
quantifiable cost benefit analysis, the principles of animal husbandry should
apply to the human race." - from The Crucible of Doubt by Terryl Givens
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