Asimov writes:
They have said that one can't be a liberal and a good Christian at one and the same time so that if you don't vote right, you are going straight to hell whatever your religious beliefs are. Fortunately, at every election they will tell you what the right vote is so that you don't go to hell by accident.
I love Asimov. He was one of the last American Renaissance intellectuals: has anyone published more books on more topics? His 3 Laws of Robotics were like a conversation with Hillel the Elder*; his Foundation Trilogy synthesized the major schools of historiography. Great Mark Twain/Will Rogers strain of plain spoken humor, too, as above.
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Asimov writes:
1. A robot may not harm a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence, as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
Hillel writes:
If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And when I am for myself, what am I? And if not now, when? (Pirkei Avot 1:14)
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Hillel writes:
That which is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. That is the whole Torah; the rest is commentary...(Babylonian Talmud, tractate Shabbat 31a.
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