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“Be honest: How evil are you?” “Less evil than people fear, and more than I would like.
Been there; done that.
roared
raised
create it,
create, it
There is no evidence to support doing good for your fellow man can’t come from self-centred motivation. It does not need the unambiguous selflessness the church teaches. If it did, very few would ever do any good in this world.
Quite true. True altruism is extremely rare.
Oliver sighed. “Sadly, you’ve summed up exactly what we’ve all devoted our lives to.” “We stand on the line, so others don’t have to walk across,” Azula said. “We accept the night, so we don’t become it,” Nina said. “But we never serve it,” Oliver said. “We never serve it,” Nina and Azula echoed. “Then we have that in common,” I finished.
The Batman archtype.
peasant.
‘peasant.’
willing
willingly
most
many
you if
you, if
that, ‘You
that, quote, ‘You
tendencies,’ whatever
tendencies,’ unquote, whatever
“Knowledge is liberation. It is freedom. It unshackles us from our limitations and lets us grow. A blacksmith looks at a fallen tree and sees charcoal for his forge, a carpenter sees a chair and desk, a bowyer sees bows, a fletcher sees arrows, and a papermaker sees paper. Each one of us have our potential limited by our knowledge. We make up for this weakness by building communities to share this burden so we can grow beyond our individual potential.
An astute observation.
no
any
way would
way and would
