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Isn't it also that on some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are? we idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.
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Isn't It Also That On Some Fundamental

John Green
Isn't it also that on some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are? we idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.
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