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Backseat Driver

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2. Well, just because "No good deed goes unpunished" doesn't mean everyone in the rest of the world
Thu May 6, 2021, 10:37 AM
May 2021

should not have empathy with the pain of India's loved ones or not because "Poor planning on your part doesn't necessarily constitute an emergency on mine." Yes, Cest la vi - Humanity selfishly hard-wired for self-preservation and most definitely imperfect..." Still, let sadness inspire us to join the mourners and seek that which preserves life, with gratitude and generosity for having that choice...rather than in selfishness and authoritarian hate of others...

"...conceived (fucking sacred life-giving) in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal (karmic consequences of a known or hidden previous caste systems?) Now we are engaged in a great civil war (against a virus), testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure." --Gettysburg address





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