No one is above taking bribe. And most certainly no one above giving it. Only the labels, the form and the manner change.
If the soothsayers of the yore were prophets because they prophesied correctly, then what are today’s astronomers and other scientists?
Violence did, does and likely will have a role. But all forms of mindless, target-less, disproportionate violence is against civility and is counter productive.
Wondered how many of us care for the child of our own Specie, next door? Everytime we buy a toy for our child, we will buy another, half as costly, for a poor child nearby?
It’s human to fear isolation for your convictions. But remember that every so often a single Galileo or Darwin had truth on the whole planet.
Experts are men who make simple things complicated. Masters do the reverse.
Prohibition is good. For others.
It is seldom about right and wrong. It is always about suitable or unsuitable.
We, all, have opinions on everything. But we don’t have answers to basic questions.
Suffering at human scale is just another process in nature’s scale.