It's worth noting that historically, attempts to build utopia generally led to atrocities. I think there's a lesson in that, and it's not that you should avoid the world. Rather, you have to work with the Natural Order of things rather than against. I believe many people putting forth their efforts to make the world a worse place have genuinely convinced themselves that they're working for the Greater Good, still others are just selfish and short-sighted, thinking "I'll be dead before the bill comes due, so who cares lol". How terribly wrong they are on that last point, as they'll find out eventually.

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