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Ethical dilemma



I find myself increasingly at odds with the way other people live, as well as with some of my own life choices. For example, I think that you shouldn’t take the life of another human, yet a friend is a Green Beret in the army, where his job involves killing others. I think that the mistreatment of animals by

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