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To: bentway who wrote (421282)	10/20/2019 12:08:53 PM
From: cosmicforce	Respond to of 541272

There are metallurgical metaphors galore here - cutting, bending, polishing, melting, burnishing, grinding, hot forging, cold working, annealing, etc. Each has its place and too much of one or not enough of another on the starting material is going to produce an inferior output. I am pretty certain that creatures (of which people are just a subset) are so different in their variety that there is no one right way that maximizes the outcome. Kindness is a good place to start . In the core of every brain is the reptilian cortex that makes anyone potentially base, immediate in their needs and potentially competitive and aggressive. They can rise above that to be better instances of themselves. From what I've seen, there are heroics but few if any heroes. When parsed - the lives of many "saints" don't really hold up. The Dalai Lama seems like a decent guy for the most part but if you read about him, he has some areas of pettiness as well. He's human.