Human capacity to be unreasonable, irrational is incredible. And it beautifully co-exists with some reason.
If the soothsayers of the yore were prophets because they prophesied correctly, then what are today’s astronomers and other scientists?
When mobs take the law in their hands either the rulers have consented to this, or have become impotent.
It doesn’t take rocket science to find why sumo wrestlers are fat and racing drivers and riders slim. But it takes high science for the reverse to happen and yet to win.
Human kind follows conviction of reason (atheists), of faith (fanatics), of convenience.
Forgive but do not forget, be generous but not cowardly, punish but do not take revenge, disagree but avoid hate.
An unjust system judges people merely by the work they did; a just system should also consider what they could and didn’t.
Shame: The burden of the sensitive.
It is seldom about right and wrong. It is always about suitable or unsuitable.
Prohibition is good. For others.