
Don’t judge someone just because they believing in social justice,
judge them if they do not.

We live in a time very much alive to billionaires finding items that we choose to consume and purchase in order to extract wealth from the rest of us.

War is often seen as a necessary expense to be endured whilst sickness and poverty a necessary evil to be politically ignored.

On War and Peace
- Benn stated that all war represents a failure of diplomatic efforts.
- He believed there was no moral distinction between different types of bombers that kill innocent people for political ends.
- He differentiated between faith, which one might die for, and doctrine, for which one might kill.

A good man, then. I ought to have paid more attention to him. As a young man I foolishly questioned his actions in turning “against” his class and I went to the same school as he did. Reading these quotes is sobering: as an old man, they represent precisely how I now feel on these topics.
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