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[jhetley]

Only a small minority of people can overcome the moral and social conditioning of their society. This is often a good thing.

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[johnpalmer]

I'm reminded of the quote from Maeterlinck: "The average, the decent moderation of today, will be the least human of things tomorrow. At the time of the Spanish Inquisition, the opinion of good sense and of the other good medium was certainly that people ought not to burn too large a number of heretics; extreme and unreasonable opinion obviously demanded that they should burn none at all."