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Many people seem to fear the future because of what they feel it will become.<\/p>\n

But I feel the world is changing for the better. Everyone dies. A significant number of people who hold the most heinous views are dying out. In their void, are rising those with less heinous views, and once they are gone, that process will continue.<\/p>\n

Evil is hard to fix, but it does die out. If you don’t hear me speaking up about some things, it may not be because I disagree, but simply because I see those things as a result of improvements and not as a cause of them.<\/p>\n

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Many people seem to fear the future because of what they feel it will become. But I feel the world is changing for the better. Everyone dies. A significant number of people who hold the most heinous views are dying out. 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