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>to be prepared to suffer and fight for principles rather than immediate personal gain, to band together with others even at personal cost is an enormous streng
by Ray20 1y ago
>to be prepared to suffer and fight for principles rather than immediate personal gain, to band together with others even at personal cost is an enormous strength.
The more I think about it, the more I come to realization that all of this just fairy tales for children.
- kybernetikos 1y agoOf course! Fairy tales for children are how we communicate some of our best understandings of what it means to live a good life. Many important things in life are fictions or rely on fictions - money, nations, property, family, art, justice, legitimacy, banks. All of them are fairytales. And like a fairy in Peter Pan, belief can make them real, powerful facts of our world while lack of belief can destroy them. It works too - I know lots of real people who make the world a better place because of the fairy tales they choose to believe.