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Dr.Who's avatar

It has taken decades of work to strip millions of Americans of their humanity. Their eyes see the suffering babies but their souls don’t budge. Their hearts beat in their chests but they don’t hurt for the children of others. Amidst a genocide, we pray for a Taylor to win the Superbowl. Our reckoning won’t be pretty...

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Richard David Greene's avatar

Perhaps pointless and futile saying this, but I think there's a form of cowardice existing in the instincts of group-dwelling creatures including humans, even vast humans of the planet-size group -- a desire unconscious or conscious, for some other group or person to be hit by the random cruelties possible around us, a motive for harm to hit some other being, some scapegoat or human-sacrifice victim. How resist that motive in us? Find good purpose????? Find courage????? Answers may change.

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