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> How do you cope with the fact that a large slice of the population seeks out bad things and refuses good things?

I take comfort in the knowledge that, even if facts don't ultimately win out, human stupidity cannot affect anything beyond this planet.

Even if we end up causing global mass extinctions, life will flourish again in an eon or two.

Even if we develop some sort of planet buster and literally blast Earth to bits, the dust will reform into something else and there's an infinite number of other worlds out there anyway.



That's the very long view. There are probably better civilizations on other planets ;-)




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