“No human society has ever cornered the market on absolute truth. The truth is that everything changes, people are never satisfied and identities are fictional.
What it means to be Christian or Spanish or even a man or a woman depends on the stories people believe. It’s changed many times in the past, and will keep changing in the future.
You won’t find the truth by killing people who disagree with you – you’ll just sink into ignorance.”
- from 'Sapiens: A Graphic History'
#quote #change #identity #humanity #history #sapiens #discourse #quotes #conflict #embracechange #tolerance #lifelonglearning #truth
Let's remember that when #LilieJame's killer, Paul Thijssen started at #StAndrews school:
-the headmaster had recently downplayed a male teacher being caught upskirting 3 female students
-that teacher (who was a son of a judge) was convicted but allowed to serve his sentence (1/3