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I think most people, given the choice, would prefer to have their lives celebrated, rather than tolerated. “The way you live is fantastic” sounds more validating than “I respect your right to exist”, though I’m happy enough with the latter. Perhaps I have low expectations of others. There’s a minor episode in British politics relating
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My earliest memory of lying is from when I was five and it’s an example of ‘lying by omission’. As a child I enjoyed hiding, seeing how long I could stay hidden before boredom set in (normally a few minutes) or people started looking for me. On the day in question, I’d arrived home from
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Bearing in mind he’s a cannibalistic serial killer, why is the character of Hannibal Lecter in the film adaptation of ‘Silence of the Lambs’ (based on Thomas Harris’s novel of the same name) not only compelling, but also likeable? More generally, what can portrayals of fictional characters tell us about the real world? Commentators cite
Harry Dobbs 