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by hugh3 5683 days ago
Some people get depressed when they find out how huge the universe is... What is the big deal about bigness? A cow is much bigger than you, but it is a ridiculous animal and you are a valuable person. You know it's a cow. It doesn't know anything. it just stands there eating grass (grass!) and mooing. And if it were bigger, that would only make it more ridiculous.

- David Deutsch

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David Deutsch, while making valid philosophical/metaphysical points, exhibits symptoms of a serial cow-tipper.