I don't mean this in a disparaging or patronising way: it's strange to see someone's childhood hurt revealed. It's in us all, deep down, to the day we die.
Monday, April 30, 2007
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That whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of those ends,
it is the right of the People to alter or abolish it and to institute new Government.
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2 comments:
Everyone is a product of their upbringing, and pretty much everyone is scarred in someway or another by it - if only if it creates a sense of complacency and optimism.
Such upbringings form our political and ethical views to a far greater extent than do facts and "rationality."
I was merely acknowledging these facts.
I'm not sure I'd consider optimism to be a scar.
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