Counterpoint%20with%20Chris%20Matthews said

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My only controversial view is that all humans share an inherent decency, warmth and spark of life. While that's not very scientific, I can observe it every day. We all bleed red, we all love our children, and we each have different personalities and insights. I can't ever say we have souls, because we are clearly finite and when we are dead there is nothing, not even the awareness of nothingess. But my radical idea is that each person is inherently valid and deserves the same respect as given to any other, without consideration of their choices. This is why the creators of this country declared us all equal. "All men are created equal," they wrote, although in our more enlightened times today we'd type, "All men, women, transgendered people and high-intelligence animals are evolved equal."