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Originally Posted by Superpickle
We are talking about Monkeys, Not People
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Unfortunately, Pickle, we
are talking about people here. Alexander Solzhenitsyn in
The Gulag Archipelago said it well:
It was only when I lay there on rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either, but right through every human heart, and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. Even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained; and even in the best of all hearts, there remains a small corner of evil.
And when you are that far down with nothing at all, have a government that is corrupt beyond our worst nightmares, have no food, your family is starving, then you will do anything. When there is no work, no schools, no support, nothing, and your brother says, lets do this thing and we will have a million dollars, then it seems they do it. And when you have absolutely nothing, what is there to loose?
Do I have an answer, nope, sorry. But I will not be sailing in that area either.
Rik