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When you give in to bullies, you don't just empower them, you encourage whatever methods they employ to achieve their ends; usually terror and violence. Meaning it's the innocent who pay; mourners at a funeral in Baghdad, a group of Coptic Christians on a beach in Libya, a group of defenseless school children in Pakistan. When we turn a blind eye to atrocities, we are complicit in them.
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Despite the fact that nothing complicates the truth as much as a lie, if the truth is as obvious as it is
inescapable, then the fabrication of its banality could be viewed as an act of benevolence.
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