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How do you solve the problems? Your culture says that you concentrate upon them. Look for evidence of them everywhere. Contrast man’s position with an ideal state. Curse your ignorance, and search for evidence of man’s sinful nature. And many who do not believe in religion per se certainly believe in man’s sinful nature—though perhaps giving it a more scientific name. So your culture believes that by publicizing crimes of whatever nature, you will somehow eradicate them.
Now to some extent, because of beliefs, because of the public’s new knowledge through television of new nefarious acts, some governments do refrain from the more spectacular crimes. Overall, however, the concentration upon any problem, upon its negative aspects, automatically increases the problem.
(Heartily:) To concentrate upon probable solutions is something else again.
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