I've felt angry about my father's health. I've felt physically fragile after watching all those machines recording his vital signs. I haven't had any time to myself since Monday morning. Most people justify their own opinions by thinking that people who disagree are stupid or lying or evil. Most people don't act like living itself is always a miracle.
People adjust to their surroundings, take good things for granted, and complain about bad things.
After the Second World War, the United States was perhaps the chief enforcer of the notion in the Nuremberg trials that you are demanded to adhere to a higher standard than the laws and ideals of the country that you happen to be in, the organization that governs that country, or the military body that gives you orders. You were held guilty unto death if you didn t dissent from them unto a higher standard. But, within our own political discourse, it s usually considered absolutely verboten to invoke that same principle. I'm back to work, working a full day. Going over to Moose's after work for dinner.