There is no justice in the laws of Nature, Headmaster, no term for fairness in the equations of motion. The universe is neither evil, nor good, it simply does not care. The stars don’t care, or the Sun, or the sky. But they don’t have to! We care! There is light in the world, and it is us.
~ Eliezer Yudkowsky c/o Harry Potter, Methods of Rationality chapter 39.
On the nature of ethics:
~ Eliezer Yudkowsky c/o Harry Potter, Methods of Rationality chapter 39.
This is too much of a bare assertion to be a good rationality quote.