Wretched lives continue wretched, and needs remain.
I know, for example, that I would have once. If you push people, they push back. That way, if he gets angry, he's a mile away and barefoot. As regards Dan's later thoughts re 'conceptual imperialism'. Two pet hates of mine still way beyond their proper due in the mindsets of many educated westerners are Aristotle's 'law of the excluded middle' and Ockham's Razor.