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Seeing in Beautiful, Precise Pictures

A 'This I Believe' Essay

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Seeing in Beautiful, Precise Pictures

By: Temple Grandin
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This essay comes from the NPR series This I Believe, which features brief personal reflections from both famous and unknown Americans. The pieces that make up the series compel listeners to rethink not only what and how they have arrived at their beliefs, but also the extent to which they share them with others.©2006 This I Believe Inc. (P)2006 This I Believe Inc., Audio Renaissance, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishers LLC Social Sciences
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Dismisses all the animal lives out of hand because "they'll eventually die anyway." Imagine using that justification for murder. Absurd argument. "Look, I made a murder weapon that lets me kill people painlessly." We'd label that person a sociopath and we would argue they are complicit. Her autism is no excuse for what she helps enable.

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