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Old 06-23-2015, 10:40 AM   #191 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Josef K View Post
Okay, if you don't believe it's possible for a person to think with other people's interests in mind, or have any degree of compassion or empathy, I don't know what the point of this conversation is.
It's not that they can't, or don't, but that they're not going to do so to a higher degree than they already do, barring some kind of major, life-changing event. Like finding Jesus, or getting a personality-altering brain tumor or something (or both).
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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