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And then you make contact with the real world and realize that, yes, morals are important, but just as holding a Civil War era to our standards is unproductive, you are going to need to pick your battles. There are lines I'm not going to cross. To take a life, or directly hurt others in malicious pleasure, for example. But I'm not going to be so rigid as to imagine that my moral compass can navigate every gray area with certitude. I'll do my best and God can judge me in the end.


There is something admirable in being unproductive and unreasonable.

I don't have the temperament for it; and just like you I can live my life to the best of my ability, winging it with the best of intentions.

However, after seeing how there are others out there who "push the envelope," and go far and beyond this, I cannot stop myself from feeling emulous.




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