"People that do not take life as Sacred, as we do, especially human life, Master. They are always debating about the point where a person is a real person. Before that, they say one might kill it, after that point, it is murder. What are we to say to that Master?"
"First of all, our rule for behaviour IN SOCIO, the R&D's, the fourth set of fundamental ethics. Second is of course the indubitable fact that appearance, the form displayed, has absolutely nothing to do whatsoever, with the criterion of it being a human person or not. A perfect statue or wax copy of a person NEVER has the person's specific-, unique-, characteristics i.e. his Ego. ('A wax figure could have all that and he'd still be a wax figure, wouldn't he?' Wyndham, Chrysalids 79.) Nor has an invalid less R&D's because he does not meet the requirements of bodily-, mental-, or motility-, forms. After all, Ego exists right after, nay, right AT conception. Once one starts questioning this, the Way is open to what we see, namely slavery, Untermenschen ideas, killing off of daughters, blinding one's children for beggary, or, as in our modern hospitals, behind one door three people are fighting for the life of one baby, next door, a baby is murdered the remains disposed of as a cancerous tumor. Perhaps, there is nothing to say, really, to murderous bastards. Only silence will do."