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Oh, you really got me there.
I am not an optimist any more than you are. I have strong ideals about killing people and I have those ideals because I am keenly aware of how easily people justify killing each other. I really don't care what murdering bastards are loved by millions. Even serial killers have people that love them.
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It's the same phenomena, by the way.
Planning the death of thousands in war.
Planning the deaths of all the blond women you see who look like your mother.
Not you, you, of course.
But the psychological steps to getting there are the same. It's amazing what one can rationalize when they shut out all but a very narrow sliver of the world.
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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce
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