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You Must Live.

"Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie
   Dust unto dust
The calm sweet earth that mothers all who die
   As all men must;
Mourn not your captive comrades who must dwell
   Too strong to strive
Within each steel-bound coffin of a cell,
   Buried alive;
But rather mourn the apathetic throng
   The cowed and the meek
Who see the world's great anguish and its wrong
   And dare not speak."

--Ralph Chaplin, in The Match (Summer, 2004)

Games We Play.

"Child of Omelas? That’s thinking too small. What if like eight billion people suffered so a few dozen guys could live lives so insane they convinced themselves it’s more likely they’re inside a computer simulation" --@ceej.online

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