• Whenever one must choose between happiness and creativity, one should choose creativity where creativity is defined as the ability to predict and control one's environment
• An alternate definition of creativity: creativity is whatever qualities of the human mind that enable people to discover new scientific laws, invent new machines or create new works of great art or assist others in doing those things
• An ethical act is any act that increases the creativity of at least one person without decreasing the creativity of any person
• No person has a right to any part of another person's life or property, except, possibly, by prior mutual, voluntary contract
• Although other aspects of the U.S. Constitution and many of the Amendments to the Constitution, especially the Bill of Rights, proved a great success, Majority Rule proved a failure. No electoral majority in any existing country can be trusted to make creative or ethical decisions

John's four books and many articles are available on the web at no cost and with no registration hassles.

More information about the person who wrote those four books:

• The John David Garcia entry at Wikipedia
• Comments made upon John's death in 2001
• John's resume

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