“Whenever I treat another person as if he were an
object, I’ve ripped the social fabric. When I treat another person as an
infinite soul, I have woven the social fabric. Whenever I lie, abuse,
stereotype, or traumatize a person, I have ripped the fabric. Whenever I see
someone truly, and make them feel known, I have woven the fabric. Whenever I
accuse someone of corruption without evidence, I have ripped the social fabric.
Whenever I disagree without maligning motives, I have woven it. The social
fabric is created through an infinity of small moral acts, and it can be
destroyed by a series of immoral ones.”—New York Times columnist and
broadcast commentator David Brooks, The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life (2019)
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