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The goodness of a person has always seemed inexplicable to me. Where does it come from? How is it able to persist? What is it that threatens to destroy it if it is indeed destructible? How can it possibly be maintained in the midst of an absurdly cruel, delusional, and hateful society like ours?

If some guy on the street asked me to explain the goodness of a person, I would recommend he read this book. It is a timely book, moreover, given the bizarrely justified harassment, arrest, imprisonment, and torture the newly elected President has promised his sad, seething,…

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