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Imagine a problem in psychology: to find a way of getting people in our day and age - Christians, humanitarians, nice, kind people - to commit the most heinous crimes without feeling any guilt. There is only one solution - doing just what we do now: you make them governors, superintendents, officers or policemen, a process which, first of all, presupposes acceptance of something that goes by the name of government service and allows people to be treated like inanimate objects, precluding any humane or brotherly relationships, and, secondly, ensures that people working for this government service must be so interdependent that responsibility for any consequences of the way they treat people never devolves on any one of them individually.

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We're a society of brats, fighting over the same toys. That, for me, is the closest we come to be inherently evil as a people. It leads to selfishness, inflexibility, and impatience -- among so many other traits that are ugly and harmful. We're combative, competitive, petty, and suffer from one fatal flaw that I can never get my head around. We recognize behavior in others that makes us insane, while turning right around and doing the exact thing to someone else.

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Do you dislike Children? I ask, entertained at the little one__ cleverness in dodging capture attempts. __ don__ dislike them, nor do I like them. I__e never understood why one must love children simply because they are children. I don__ love people because they are people; in fact, I rarely like any people at all. If a child is somehow deserving of admiration, I certainly won__ deny it, but why hand it out like candy on Queen__ Day?_ I laugh, surprising him. __o you think me terribly cruel, then?_ __ctually, I agree. It is another great fault of mine my mother endeavored to correct. Children in general I__e never cared for, though individual children I love very much.