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The World’s Ingredients: Injustice, Hypocrisy, and Hope

The World’s Ingredients: Injustice, Hypocrisy, and Hope
One part injustice. One part hypocrisy. One part hope. Imagine this as the recipe that makes up our world, with the proportions free to change but with no part free to vanish. Injustice is a priori the product of a competitive world. Hypocrisy is the rational response to injustice by the strong. Hope is the irrational response to injustice by the weak.

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