Obsessions, Cruelty and Lawlessness: Operating with Complete Disregard for the Rights of Others – Including their Right to Life, Safety and Security E. Lemma, August 21, 2024 “ The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.” — Albert Einstein “ The endeavour to understand,” said Spinoza, “is the first and only basis of virtue.” In this, for the last seven or eight months now, I have been trying hard to understand why the group belonging to the national secret intelligence organization has been obsessed so much on my destruction. As such, when I am not studying and working in engineering, I also spend time reading and getting into intellectual arguments and discussions with other people about the care of self as communicated to us by thinkers and sages including Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus and others. While these things might not be exciting to all, it is hard to imagine that they would be upsetti...
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