Torture: any act that inflicts severe physical or mental pain as a punishment, or in order to force someone to do or say something.
Some believe torture works. I believe compassion is one of ten inalienable rights. It is not possible to be both compassionate and to condone torture. If I point a loaded gun at your heart and fire, you will die. That the gun works is not why I will never do this. Compassion is by far the stronger force.
Proof: the evidence and argument that establishes the truth of a statement.
Faith: the willingness and experience of believing something is or might be true despite little proof.
Belief: an acceptance that something exists or is true without proof.
Truth: a fact that in future may be overturned as new evidence and understanding comes to light.
Those things I value most are not easily proven yet undoubtedly exist: love, compassion, and beauty.
At times my self-confidence is high, and at others it is low. Although I do not enjoy the unrest doubt brings, it provides the balance to my certainty. People who make things repeatedly pass the fulcrum of their contentment.
As children we have little control over the constant flux of feeling good and bad, and perhaps because of this, when young, we tend to make far more.
William Shakespeare
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