The weapon is lethal when it's a pistol and when it's an insurance company. The insurance company merely serves as an accountability sink, a layer of indirection that lets a murder happen without any person being the technical murderer: [...]
Cory Dotorow: Pluralistic: Predicting the present (09 Dec 2024)
Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it—whole-heartedly—and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings.
It was the first time I’d been murdered, but I didn’t need to be a drama-queen about it.
Fortunately, we don't have to make these hard moral decisions. The people programming our robot cars will do it for us.
Now, with all these cameras focused on my face
Well, you would think that they could see it through my skin
Looking for evil, thinking they can trace it, but
Evil don't look like anything
Okkervil River - Westfall (Don't Fall in Love with Everyone You See)
