As I was walking home from the beach one day I passed by these two fellows. They were standing there looking out at the beach very intensely. I turned to see what they were looking at and to my dismay they were clearly spying at the innocent people on the beach, awaiting for an unfortunate soul to leave his/her bag behind while taking a dip in the sea. I was tempted to say something to these two men but then I realized 1. My spanish is terrible and 2. I was scared of them. I quickly walked away and was disappointed that I had been so scared. Why should I be scared of them? They are the ones stealing, cheating, and lying. Moral of the story: maybe next time I will muster up the courage to speak to the "scary men".
For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.
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Quoting Sir Thomas More, Utopia
A Gypsy, for example, is rarely painted as anything else. They are defined by their status as [we] are, yet it is not who they are. [We] have been born to privilege, and with that come specific obligations.
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