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Old 12-16-2010, 04:15 PM   #13
glatt
 
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Originally Posted by Flint View Post
If a man takes a necessary action and is changed by it, then he has become a better person insomuch as having a more honest relationship with the realities of human experience.
I'll agree that any change gives the person a more honest relationship with reality, but I don't think it follows that the person becomes a better person.

Think of those soldiers returning from war with post traumatic stress. These are broken men who did the right thing and are suffering now because of it.
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