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Any celebration meal to which guests are invited, be they family or friends, should be an occasion for generous hospitality.
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Julian Baggini
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: September 9
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I maintain the importance of an absolute prohibition against torture, while acknowledging that even absolute prohibitions can sometimes be broken. If that is a contradiction, it is a contradiction that ethics has to embrace, or else it becomes like glass: hard, clear, but fatally inflexible.
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