“[I]t seems so unfair: some of us starve to death before we’re out of infancy, while others – by an accident of birth – live out their lives in opulence and splendour. We can be born into an abusive family or a reviled ethnic group, or start out with some deformity; we go through life with the deck stacked against us, and then we die, and that’s it? Nothing but a dreamless and endless sleep? Where’s the justice in this? This is stark and brutal and heartless.”

— Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995), p. 255