How many lives of the innocent have been ruined or destroyed by upholding American "justice" and "freedom"? How hollow those words are now today.
But the ends justify the means, right?
Right...?
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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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