"All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!
~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~












But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!

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