"Freedom means being able to choose how we respond to things. When wisdom is not well developed, it can easily be obscured by the provocations of others. In such cases we may as well be animals or robots. If there is no space between an insulting stimulus and its immediate conditioned response-anger-then we are in fact under the control of others."

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So Maximilien Robespierre was opposed to the death penalty in his early career, and then he went on to back the Terror and OMG MASSIVE CONTRADICTION  except not really, becauuuuuuuuse ( Read more... )