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October 22, 2013
"The greatest mystery in the world is whatever possesses so many people to choose decency."
It can’t be because they hope for justice from the European Court of Human Rights. Fat chance of that.The only explanation is that some residual stubbornness or unquenchable hope condemns humanity to refuse to buckle under, so that there are always enough fools in each generation of the world to say, ‘hey carbon man, the hell with you’. And that keeps the world from going under. Not that it takes it to perfection, but it forces the match to another round, in a bout whose scorecard no one can predict. As Tolkien wrote of his mythical everyman: ‘We will bear the Ring, though we do not know the way.’ - - Belmont Club » Nobody But Us
Posted by gerardvanderleun at October 22, 2013 10:31 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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A question also posed by G K Chesterton, paraphrased: "The question is not why is there evil in the world, but why is there good?"
Posted by: Darkwater at October 22, 2013 11:34 AM
My brother wonder regularly why people stop at stop signs and go the speed limit when there aren't any cops around. People generally follow the rules.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 22, 2013 4:13 PM
My brother wonder regularly why people stop at stop signs and go the speed limit when there aren't any cops around. People generally follow the rules.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 22, 2013 4:49 PM