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When The Basic Structure Of Society Is Publicly Known To Satisfy Its Principles For An Extended Period Of Time, Those Subject To These Arrangements Tend To Develop A Desire To Act In Accordance With These Principles And To Do Their Part In Institutions Which Exemplify Them

An Intolerant Sect Has No Right To Complain When It Is Denied An Equal Liberty... A Person's Right To Complain Is Limited To Principles He Acknowledges Himself.

The Perspective Of Eternity Is Not A Perspective From A Certain Place Beyond The World, Nor The Point Of View Of A Transcendent Being; Rather It Is A Certain Form Of Thought And Feeling That Rational Persons Can Adopt Within The World ... Purity Of Heart, If One Could Attain It, Would Be To See Clearly And To Act With Grace And Self-command From This Point Of View.

The Idea Of Public Reason Has To Do With How Questions Should Be Decided, But It Doesn't Tell You What Are The Good Reasons Or Correct Decisions.

Certainly It Is Wrong To Be Cruel To Animals And The Destruction Of A Whole Species Can Be A Great Evil. The Capacity For Feelings Of Pleasure And Pain And For The Form Of Life Of Which Animals Are Capable Clearly Impose Duties Of Compassion And Humanity In Their Case.