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Wilb has it here. The best you can hope for is to look after yourself and your own and be kind to people yourself.
Voltaire's 'Candide' is very instructive on this issue. Just look after your own patch of the garden. If everyoe does this, we'll all have a nice garden. If not, at least you'll have something pretty to look at.
Words and ideas can never change the nature of the human being. The tail does not wag the dog, but we are delicately evolved into a niche. Even the evil bastards have a rightful place.
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"No one was behaving from very Buddhist motives. Then, thought Pigsy, he was hardly a Buddha, nor was he a monkey. Presently, he was a pig spirit changed into a little girl pretending to be a little boy to be offered to a water monster. It was all very simple to a pig spirit."
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