Human civilization would not function without it. I personally have mixed feelings about it. We all do it but it grates on me in some ways. I would like to be me without reservation. I bit my tongue a lot at dinner last night right? Maybe talking about the tapeworm was poor form but I was civil if weird. Prioritization of others comforts who matter to you supersede your own wants. If I was a capable man of solid inner character I would retreat to the woods and never see people again. Here I am though. Reality does not match wants.
I do think that great change and change for the good of man has been brought about by uncompromising men. But on a small scale compromise is one of the only things that keeps us afloat.
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