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Welcome to the Daily Stood. For each day, we read a short passage designed to help

you cultivate the strength, insight, wisdom necessary for living good life.

Each one of these passages is based on the 2000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of history's

greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at dailystoodic.com.

You should understand this by now.

The iron law of history is that people do dumb things. They behave this way for many reasons,

ignorance, fear, bad habits because they've been corrupted because they are ordinary

people with flaws just like you because they are in pain. There is nothing like a pandemic

to put a spotlight on these people and these reasons. We see their pictures in the news.

We read their nasty comments on social media and it's frustrating and it's distressing

because they aren't just putting themselves at risk but other people. It's easier to

accept someone driving without a seatbelt which affects them than someone's speeds, which

in danger is everyone. But this is a reality of life. People will speed. They will speed

not wear a seatbelt and be combative and mean. They will do this cause and accident and

still blame everyone but themselves. That's just how it is. What can we do? Well, one

thing we shouldn't do is say, screw it if they're going to behave that way, I will too.

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