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Jared Diamond

“If we find people virtuous or admirable in one respect, it troubles us to find them no so in another respect. It is difficult for us to acknowledge that people are not consistent, but are instead mosaics of traits formed by different sets of experiences that often do not correlate with each other.”

Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
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