Do not live only to fight evil: find positive goals.
Letters to The Editor
From the perspective of a climber and an economist whose research involves international aid programs, I am impressed with the works of Greg Mortenson and the Central Asia Institute ["The Infidel," No. 128]. As I write this on the second anniversary of the September 11 attacks, I am reminded of Professor Amartya Sen’s New York Times Op-Ed piece from May 27, 2002.
In it, he quoted Isaiah Berlin: “Men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive
goals.”
Sen, the 1998 Nobel Prize winner in economics for his work in poverty and economic development, argues that terrorism may be reduced by reducing the disparities in today’s.
Leading the wayward, notably through education. In the latest Rock & Ice, I was pleased to see the feature demonstrating Mortenson’s example of living by positive goals.
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