It is as though the human race is always only waiting for permission to hate.

Celine Kiernan
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It is as though the human race is always only waiting for permission to hate. You can’t hate someone who doesn’t exist, so if those who do exist don’t have the freedom to be hateful, what chance does the human race have? In 1890, an Englishman named Henry Sidgwick argued that people were born with a natural propensity toward goodness. He described this trait as “the germ of all virtue,” and he compared it to a seed that would germinate on any suitable conditions.

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