People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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The idea of some people being less than people is poison to any society and needs to be named as such in order to halt its spread before it turns the soul of a society septic.
There are some sick people in this world.
There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison.
It is said that man doesn't live by bread alone. Sometimes this is unfortunate, because people who cannot live by bread alone too often kill other people in consequence of the fights they get into.
Given appropriate social conditions, decent, ordinary people can be led to do extraordinarily cruel things.
I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me - toasted and buttered on both sides.
We kind of have an ingrained, parasitic society. We kind of think it's okay to eat your neighbor.
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked.
A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief.