The Human Paradox

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"The less forgivable the act, the more it must be forgiven. The less lovable the person, the more we must find ways to love them.

This is what makes us unique-er than other animals - or perhaps even the unique-st. The harder it is - this contradiction to take the the impossibility of something to be the very proof that it must be possible and must become a moral imperative - the harder it is to do that, the more important it is.

One of things about becoming wised up is that there is a very clear conclusion that you have to reach at after a while- which is, at the end of the day, it is really impossible for one person to make a difference. And thus, the more clearly absolutely utterly resolutely irrevocably impossible for you to make the world a better place, the more you must."

- Robert Sapolsky
"The Uniqueness of Humans"