You understand that the piggies are animals, and you no more condemn t…

Orson Scott Card
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You understand that the piggies are animals, and you no more condemn them for murdering Libo and Pipo than you condemn a cabra for shewing up capim. That's right, said Miro. Ender smiled. And that's why you'll never learn anything from them. Because you think of them as animals. ✨ Orson Scott Card (2011). Speaker For The Dead: Book 2 in the Ender Saga, p.156, Hachette UK
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