Early? Late? Either way would still be an atrocity. There is still no excuse, just as there is no excuse for approving torture. Again, there are other ways—ways of conducting ourselves in tune to the values we hold and protect, instead of against them.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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