To be clear I do not work for law-enforcement - and I do not know the specific legalities in regards to sex-workers - nor to I have an ethical problem with practices where it is legal - and exploitation does not take place. As comedian Chris Rock said the number one job of a dad is to keep his daughter from having a career on...
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Have I ever expressed a passion for tattoos in the past 15 years. Only once – but it was sarcastic and in a private e-mail where I jokingly said that if I ever got a job at Toyota in Cambridge Ontario Canada – I would get a Toyota tattoo on my arm.
When I went out to nightclubs a woman – who I am still...
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Writing to Gandhi again on September 7, 1910 — eight weeks before he took his final breath — Tolstoy revisited the subject with even more heartfelt conviction:
The longer I live — especially now when I clearly feel the approach of death — the more I feel moved to express what I feel more strongly than anything else, and what in my opinion is of...
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He distills this idea to one “old and simple truth”:
It is natural for men to help and to love one another, but not to torture and to kill one another.
In addition to the false interpretations of religion, Tolstoy takes equal issue with scientific reductionism — something that undoubtedly felt like a great threat at the dawn of the twentieth century, when science was...
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He considers how political ideologies hijacked this basic law of love at various times in human history and tried to replace it with a law of violent submission:
This truth was made known to people who considered that a community could only be kept together if some of them restrained others, and so it appeared quite irreconcilable with the existing order of society… The dissemination...
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