"There is one basic fact that holds for all living things. Evil for any form of life is anything that hinders or threatens its existence; good is anything that promotes it. It’s that way everywhere, under every sun. It’s as obvious as two times two, because otherwise, if the opposite were true, life would be dooming itself to destruction. No civilization can change the criteria for good and evil without suffering for it."
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Dmitri Bilenkin
Dmitri Bilenkin (September 21, 1933 – July 28, 1987), was a Soviet science fiction author.
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