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The world is not filled with monsters. It's filled with normal, flawed human beings.

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The world is not filled with monsters. It's filled with normal, flawed human beings.

Don't be the person who demands to know who has and hasn't suffered.

Ben Dreyfuss
Jun 9, 2021
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A few years ago I was at a party and people began to talk about whether it was OK for people in other countries to use words that in the United States we considered sexist slurs if in those other countries the words have different connotations. Specifically, it was about the C word. Everyone agreed that in the United State…

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