Murder Theory (The Naturalist, #3)

by Andrew Mayne

The smart thing to do is to walk away. Unfortunately, my curiosity doesn’t always lead me to do the smart thing.

To be sure, it’s one thing to murder a child for having different genes and another to make a joke at the expense of someone who is dealing with a handicap, but they’re both acts of cruelty and dehumanization.

I don’t subscribe to the idea that just because two things are on a moral gradient they’re equal. That’s irrational. However, I do believe it’s important to take a look at something from different points of view.

Causation and correlation are not the same thing, but it’s not something I’d discount immediately out of hand.

Good science requires having your ideas challenged,

that.” “Over it? How can I be over helping people? If I don’t do something, people will die.” “And if I don’t send all the things I bake to feed people in starving countries, they’re going to die. And you know what? I don’t send them there. Why? Because there’s only so much I can do.