is afraid.

The worst immorality is a studied ignorance, a purposeful

refusal to see or know.

The worst immorality is living without ambition or work

or pushing the rest of us along.

The worst immorality is being timid when there is no

threat.

The worst immorality is refusing to push oneself where one

is afraid to go.

The worst immorality is not to love actively.

The worst immorality is to close down because heartbreak

has worn one down.

The worst immorality is to live according to rituals, rites of

passage that are predetermined and impersonal.

The worst immorality is to deny someone else dignity.

The worst immorality is to give in, give up.

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Immoral

The worst immorality is to follow a road map of hate

drawn by white supremacists and male supremacists.

The worst immorality is to use another person’s body in the

passing of time.

The worst immorality is to inflict pain.

The worst immorality is to be careless with another

person’s heart and soul.

The worst immorality is to be stupid, because it’s easy

The worst immorality is to repudiate one’s own uniqueness

in order to fit in.

The worst immorality is to set one’s goals so low that one

must crawl to meet them.

The worst immorality is to hurt children.

The worst immorality is to use one’s strength to dominate

or control.

The worst immorality is to sur ender the essence of oneself

for love or money.

The worst immorality is to believe in nothing, do nothing,

achieve nothing.

The worst immoralities are but one, a single sin of human

nothingness and stupidity. “Do no harm” is the counterpoint

to apathy, indifference, and passive aggression; it is the fundamental moral imperative. “Do no harm” is the opposite of immoral. One must do something and at the same time do no

harm. “Do no harm” remains the hardest ethic.

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Memory

Memory became political on the global scale when Holocaust

survivors had to remember in order to testify against Nazi war

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