People are much more likely to be cruel not when they're doing something bad, but when they are convinced they're doing something good.
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Jim Ley
on March 08, 2007
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God keep me from those who think they have the right to tell me what he wants me to do.
I agree (probably - some bad people know they're bad), but I don't think this means that we should avoid doing things we think are good (even in some circumstances if others may consider them cruel).
It means rather that we need to be humble with our beliefs. We should act out of the conviction of our beliefs, but our acts must always be tempered by the awareness that we are certainly wrong about some of them and we don't know which ones.
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We should act out of the conviction of our beliefs, but our acts must always be tempered by the awareness that we are certainly wrong about some of them and we don't know which ones.highly agreed.
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