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Selflessness Through Selfish Living

People in this world taking a stand over helpless animals being tested for human products, unproven and possibly unconnected effects on climate change, sat with knickers twisted over Trump and Brexit and eating anything but meat so as not to bring harm to animals, protecting donkeys used to maul, protesting gay, equal and gender rights that largely involve ideas or cliches given to a group never focusing on an individual whilst the majority share on Facebook all martyred up pointing out and saying bulls**t kindness, good intention and care when all the while actual people with stories of events and of people that destroyed their life, destroyed their personality, destroyed their optimism and ambition were mentally stripped of freedom after basically dying as one person and being reborn as nothing but a body, sit hopelessly helpless and partially heard as they are mocked, dismissed, and labelled a nutcase, all because a human being intentionally set out to harm them and succeeded, don’t tell me there’s empathy when everything is chosen through personal desire for oneself. Not helping people around you but committing to fantasy theory and distant crap in the name of selflessness (but only if it doesn’t get in the way of selfish living).

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Date: 1/30/2020 8:54:00 AM
This is truly heartfelt. "a body sit hopelessly helpless and partially heard as they are mocked dismissed and labelled a nutcase because a human being intentionally set out to harm them and succeeded," great job!
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Nick Trim
Date: 1/30/2020 8:56:00 AM
thanks Caren :)

Book: Shattered Sighs