Just like how most if not all poor boys look up to and aspire to someday be rich men, most if not all underdeveloped and developing countries look up to and aspire to someday be developed countries.
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To ask a man whether or not he has a girlfriend is to talk about his sex life. If you disagree with that, then how in the name of God do you differentiate between a man__ girlfriend and a girl that is a friend to the man?
Many a survivor of a plane crash who is or was against cannibalism and had never eaten human flesh once found themselves in a situation where they had to either eat human flesh, or go the way of all flesh.
Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.
Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers_ chances of not being left by our mothers, or vice versa.
Patriotism is the narcissism of countries.
Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel or really think but in accordance with the expectations of those around them.
The most upsetting thing about Society__ attitude towards disabled people is that many millions of disabled people became disabled while trying to please Society, the very same bitch that secretly regards them as subhuman.
It must be noted that the non-aggression alone can never be the starting point in justifying moral behavior or serving as a fundamental principle of ethics. There must be a justification of the non-aggression principle before such a case can be made. The very implication of the term __rinciple_ implies that non-aggression serves as the foundation for a system of ethics, which it cannot be. It is certainly not an axiom since it is not a self-evident truth.
Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents_ foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood.
Most sane human beings_ chances of being alive in a thousand years_ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of being sincerely happy for at least ten consecutive days.
For a sane person to sincerely be happy that someone has succeeded, they have to either be profiting or likely to profit from that person__ success, or be that person.