lo evidente es en muchos casos lo más difícil de ver. La gente dice "es tan claro como mi nariz", pero ¿qué porción de nuestra nariz podemos ver, a m… - Isaac Asimov

When you think of human history, you think of the occasional human being whose minority view may be condemned by society but who wins out in the end and changes the world. What chance is there on Gaia for the great rebels of history?

The Jews continued to be suspicious of foreigners. So did most other people of the time. So do most people today. We ourselves are often suspicious of people who look different, who talk differently, who aren't just like ourselves.
But it is not too late to learn the lesson of Ruth. ... should we not look at each person closely, as an individual with his own virtues and faults, and judge him for that and not for anything else.
And if we could find all the Ruths of the world, how much better off all of us would be.

It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.