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Jean Valjean ✞ Ultime Fauchelevent ([personal profile] almaredemptoris) wrote in [community profile] nysalogs 2018-04-28 06:29 pm (UTC)

[He knows he is not the rule, but nor does he believe he is exceptional. He thinks himself simply a man who does his best to live as Christ asked. Thus, he rejects hatred and wields mercy.]

I think that locking one's door is but a small price to pay if it means that these children are given a fair chance to make their own destiny. Perhaps it is true that the system protects society by preventing robbery, murder, and a dozen other crimes, but so too does it rob society of countless men and women who have the potential to do good. All because they have the smallest potential to do evil...

[Under such a system, he too would have been locked away as a boy, all that he might be predetermined from his genesis. How unfair he had thought it to be enslaved for the minor offense of thieving a mouthful of bread as a man - and how much heavier an injustice it would be to receive punishment for no offense but for the probability of one as a boy! The great roiling sea of hatred that had claimed him in the galleys would thrash a child more violently and drown him more swiftly.

And who would be there to reach out their hand to him as the bishop had done?]

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