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Are We Enlightened by Collective Sacrifice?
I think about is maybe we're like a choice point. You could think the move in the direction of personal sacrifice from group sacrifice could be progress. If you just try to sit with doing pointless sacrifices individually instead of doing them as a group, there's nothing that stabilizes the individual. Unless it's kind of supposed to go somewhere. And so today Germany loses World War II, and Germany has a collective guilt. Are we allowed to go take that out on each German? That's something we're less sure we're okay with. Even today with Russia right. Keep you know they are sort of basically taking the yachts of Russians and telling Russians they can't go abroad but of