The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them.
What a massive responsibility, being a moral creature
Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.
There is no moment without some duty.
I never want to possibly take another life in my hands.
I get so tired of moral bookkeeping.
One mistake, one brief lapse of my new found judgement-that's all it took to unravel everything. What a massive responsibility, being a moral creature.
The physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
And man's little Life has Duties that are great, that are alone great, and go up to Heaven and down to Hell.
In writing non-fiction about people who are living, you are always walking a fine line, carrying a burden to be fair that, in my opinion, should always be there.
In the past, much power and responsibility over life and death was concentrated in the hands of doctors. Now, this ethical burden is increasingly shared by the builders of AI software.
