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Easy to be Kind?

Humanity cannot stand to be too close, one human being to another.  Schopenhauer used the simile of freezing porcupines.
“Some people love the Chinese because they cannot love their neighbor.”  -Voltaire

Is this you?  Is it easier to be kind to those in distant lands than the needy here?

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