At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
Aristotle
"If you just learn a single trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it."
— Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck) , To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
The function of posterity is to look after itself.