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Joseph Carter's avatar

"Obviously I don’t want bad things for society, but it seems to me that the only escape from the sociological illusion is to give other people the same freedom that we give ourselves."

That's a beautiful conclusion! If you came to that in an hour-long blog post, you shouldn't be worried about completing a worthy manuscript.

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Gnocchic Apocryphon's avatar

Most of the really great books contain multitudes enough for innumerable variety of good and evil and everything in between. The Bible would perhaps be the central example of this, but there are those too who argue that every kind of political totalitarianism emanates from The Republic, so Plato's not off the hook either. It's important to wrestle with the angel, but at the end of things you really do just have to trust your reader, so I think you've gotten to where you need to go! I really look forward to the book.

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