Actors should not be the ones lektchuring the rest of us on ethics & morality. They also have a tendency to conflate virtue and its external man… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I propose that if you want a simple step to a higher form of life, as distant from the animal as you can get, then you may have to denarrate, that is, shut down the television set, minimize time spent reading newspapers, ignore the blogs.

Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (one of the doer-Stoic authors): fire feeds on obstacles.

The way to deal with racists is to NEVER use moral arguments (they are insensitive to them). Just prove to them that their "race"... was comparatively sub-par for a very, very, very long time. Just like the current condition of "inferior" races. That, they can't handle.