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March 4, 2015

If we sat down to think about what’s really important to us,

we might come up with qualities like fairness, kindness, responsibility, loyalty, and mutual respect. It seems like all of the major problems in the world are caused by a small contingent of bad apples, who simply shun these important qualities and ruin it for kind, responsible, honest and fair people like ourselves.
I think this is wishful thinking. The truth is that all of us — even those of us who feel like good people — are almost comically terrible at achieving these qualities, yet we expect them as a matter of course from each other and ourselves. Our incredulous response to scandal and selfishness suggests that we believe any of us could, at any moment, snap out of our self-interest and dysfunction, and make the world the place it should have been all along. This Just In: Humans Are Bad at Everything That’s Important

Posted by gvanderleun at March 4, 2015 6:17 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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Ecclesiastes 9:

4- For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
5- For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

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