Terry Pratchett was wise

@wslack All of us who lived under the Communism remembers this very well: Them are Us! And it is the most sobering and humbling discovery Iโ€™ve made.

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@mcepl What advice would you have from your own experience?

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1. Be very decisive in rejecting evil in our lives. It is very easy to slide from being Us to being Them. Something like the baptism renewal vows: โ€œDo you reject Satan, all his works, and all his empty promises?โ€

2. Be very careful in judging others. Everybody has their own story, and yes some people are truly evil and they did it for horrible reasons, but many did not. โ€œThe line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.โ€ (Solzhenitsyn)

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I'd add a third:

3, We're all flawed, and the biggest flaw is we don't necessarily know what they are

I know this is true of me.