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▼ NoME Part Four: Chapter 10: Session 868, July 25, 1979 2/36 (6%) competition Idealist ideal worthy unworthy
– The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events
– © 2012 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Part Four: The Practicing Idealist
– Chapter 10: The Good, the Better, and the Best. Value Fulfillment Versus Competition
– Session 868, July 25, 1979 9:15 P.M. Wednesday

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Give us a moment… Most readers of this book can be considered idealists in one way or another by themselves or others. Yet certainly in these pages we have presented several pictures of social and political realities that are far from ideal. We have tried to outline for you many beliefs that undermine your private integrity as individuals, and contribute to the very definite troubles current in the mass world.

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You will often condone quite reprehensible acts if you think they were committed for the sake of a greater good. You have a tendency to look for outright evil, to think in terms of “the powers of good and evil,” and I am quite sure that many of my readers are convinced of evil’s force. Evil does not exist in those terms, and that is why so many seemingly idealistic people can be partners in quite reprehensible actions, while telling themselves that such acts are justified, since they are methods toward a good end.

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