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Why should we be judged according to another’s rule?
After all, God didn’t give Moses “The Ten Suggestions,” he gave Commandments; and if I’m a free agent, my first reaction to a command might just be that nobody, not even God, tells me what to do, even if it’s good for me. But the story of the golden calf also reminds us that without rules we quickly become slaves to our passions—and there’s nothing freeing about that.
He seemed to be assuming, as a child would—before learning how dulled adults can become—that if he thought something was interesting, then so might others.
The paintings were not there because Jordan had any totalitarian sympathies, but because he wanted to remind himself of something he knew he and everyone would rather forget: that over a hundred million people were murdered in the name of utopia.
we are born human that we are guaranteed a good dose of suffering.
