hink of it all - of the life that is! Study your friends and foes!
Study the past! And answer this: "Are these times better than those?" The life-long quarrel, the paltry spite, the sting of your poisoned pride! No matter who fell it were better to fight as they did when the world was wide.
Fear or Live?
"I don't have the innocence of a child, but I have the innocence of the unguilty. It was being questioned by strangers, then by me. If every man has to explain himself when he is with children, if he has to have a police check to volunteer his time, if he has to deal with suspicious looks because he has taken his niece to the park, if his daughter's friends aren't allowed to sleep over, then we have become a society that is prepared to sacrifice some trust for its vigilance.The protection of children from sexual predators must be paramount, but there are costs. Among them is the price good men pay for the deeds of a few.
The fact that I am reluctant to pick up and cuddle a young girl or boy these days makes me feel sad. We have all lost something joyful."
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We shouldn't let waves of collective fear, stemming from the actions of a few, dictate the affairs of everyone to the extent that we become so narcissistic and scared that we distrust one another. Let's recognise that complete security, happiness, and other 'perfections' are impossible in a real society, and that the drive to achieve these perhaps 'ideal' notions in their entirety can be dangerously stifling.
Life will always in involve risk. If we become so reactive that we run from risk then we will not really live.