Zen Pencils by Gavin Aung Than for November 17, 2014
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Transcript:
It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. WHOOSH! Each time a man stands up for an ideal… …or acts to improve the lot of others… …or strikes out against injustice… WHACK! …he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope. And crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring… …those ripples build a current… …which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. - Robert F. Kennedy
But aren’t dragons actually evil, sometimes? Smaug wasn’t protecting his young, after all. Not to push an allegory too far, but isn’t that the question about evil in the world—is it a function of pathology, motives we don’t understand from our own perspective or free will exercised solely for the benefit of oneself regardless of the effect on others?
Or something else entirely?