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mywingsareonwheels · 6 months

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“And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.”

“It’s a lot more complicated than that –”

“No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.”

“Oh, I’m sure there are worse crimes –”

“But they starts with thinking about people as things…”

(Granny Weatherwax, to Pastor Mightily Oats, Carpe Jugulum, Terry Pratchett.)

#gnu terry pratchett #granny weatherwax #esme weatherwax #mightily oats #carpe jugulum #pastor oats #sin's a difficult word for a lot of us but whatever the noun: yeah i think granny's absolutely right #people as things is where the rot kicks in for pretty much everything awful #and of course granny herself struggles a lot not to see other people as things so she knows how hard being decent can be #but she does it #all the time

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