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I was watching Maoyu while running last night, and it's a complex story of the Demon King and the Hero trying to end the demon/human war while simultaneously not destroying food supplies and economic supply chains that the war effort has developed (Yeah, it's more interesting than I thought it would be.) #anime

One of the characters is taken up as a heretic by the church (wrongly) and as she stands to be stoned by the crowd, she says, "I was raised as serf, and I have been told I am an insect; but I am not an insect. I am a human. We are given the freedom to make choices. To choose each day to be better than we were yesterday. If you want to throw that stone, to save your family, I will shed the same blood that pumps through your heart. But if you throw that stone because you are told to, because you have given to someone else the right to make your decisions for you, then you are the insect." (or words to that effect--she said it better and I can't transcribe it all.)
Surprisingly a propos.

huffpost.com/entry/hakeem-jeff…

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