That solid bar at the center of your wrath is the reason. Not your reason. The reason. The objective, morally axiomatic reason you are furious. And if you can pull that bar back out and polish it clean of your hurt and your prejudice, you can show it to other people. You can touch them with it, like a lodestone. And then they get furious alongside you. Because they realize that in your place they’d be furious too. And they realize that, if they don’t get furious, maybe someday they will end up in your place. The reason rings out true across all of time and context. It is the fulcrum that lets
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