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SteelHands · 61-69, M
I don't know. Sounds kind of comforting though.
SweetMae · 70-79, F
@SteelHands It might be true in some cases.
SteelHands · 61-69, M
@SweetMae Just as gravity makes it easier to go downhill than uphill, concience makes crossing the line from good to bad much less painful than crossing it from bad to good.

The physical eye adapts to lower levels of illumination but always knows when it's deprived of any light. The eye of the spirit has the gift of imagining light where there is none.

If it were not so, falsehoods would be much more painful for those in the dark to endure, and fewer people would be pointing at false lights.
SweetMae · 70-79, F
@SteelHands Thank you. That is a very insightful answer. Especially this line. [quote]The eye of the spirit has the gift of imagining light where there is none.[/quote]
SteelHands · 61-69, M
@SweetMae Yes yw. Life's never simple enough about anything to have rules like that.

Sometimes dumb couples get a smart kid or two and sometimes a smart couple raises a flub.

It's like those relationship quotes. Anyone should know those things are for beginners.

Nothing is ever simple.
SteelHands · 61-69, M
@SteelHands The early twentieth century history had a few that in the first decade, thought of themselves as saviors.

One of these learned a pre industrial revolution theory of economics called "ultimate depletion economics" where unchecked societal growth would lead inevitably to mass starvation and deprivation due to excess efficiency of the private sector.

He was born to an unwed mother and was first interested in becoming a religious scholar, and then studied art. His mother married a postal clerk, a very lucrative job at the time. He adopted the boy and tried to get him interested in government work. Which he finally did start taking an interest in. Applying his knowledge of economics he was considered a visionary.

His name? Adolph Hitler.

And that's the rest of the story.