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Thomas Paine wrote:These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
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could we not just skip all that together and live in harmony?
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I don't know what it would take. I don't think it ever was the situation.
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i sadly agree, but in the end it would be ever so easy with some attitude adjustments from when kids are still young. or am i just naive?
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I think it boils down to instinct. As long as there is more than one person in the world, there will be competition. And, somebody will always escalate it.
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then... how to cure 'bad' instincts?
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Good question. To boil the complex answer down to something simple, there are no good or bad instincts. It all boils down to the primal instincts to survive.
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true enough, but why then do have so many suicides and at other end people who prefer to do others in - without the slightest threat to themselves? :think:
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The threat in those cases is internal. The only way to kill the demon within is to kill the host.
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