“I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my 'spaceship' and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again.”
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People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.
Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
If capitalism is to remain a healthy, vibrant economic system, corporations must participate in taking care of the society and the environment in which they live.
The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.