Dangerously Unique

It’s pieces like this one, written by Moisés Naím, editor in chief of Foreign Policy that bring back into mind what normalcy is.

You are not normal. If you are reading these pages, you probably belong to the minority of the world’s population that has a steady job, adequate access to social security, and enjoys substantial political freedoms. Moreover, you live on more than $2 a day, and, unlike 860 million others, you can read.
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At a time when values have become so common in political discourse, it is important to remain alert to when our advice is built on faulty assumptions about what is normal. When that happens, values lead to bad decisions, not moral clarity.

Foreign Policy: Dangerously Unique

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