"You, your joys and sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules."
-Francis Crick (one of the co-discoverers of the molecular structure of DNA)
What a comforting offense that is.
Nobody can ever be better than you, or worse. Or matter more, or less. Rejection, cheating, lying, dreaming, hoping, fearing. Maybe Francis Crick is right, and it's nothing deep or meaningful, just cells and molecules and biology happening. Everything anyone is and everything they feel and think and do, matters nothing, nothing more than nerve cell behavior. You cannot hate or judge people any more than they can you, you cannot criticize molecular behavior and blame a person for it.
Maybe it's comforting to believe that. But to believe that, you have to accept that everything about you is nothing more than nerve cells and associated molecules as well. What are you worth?
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