all progress is based on exploitation.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/tachyontv.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/2008\/02\/23\/reset_dave.jpg\")
The issue is worth thinking and talking about. How many of the things we take for granted \u2013 whether medicines, technologies, or simply a situation of relative economic comfort \u2013 are due to or connected with exploitation, whether historic or present, whether direct or indirect?<\/p>\n
Would you be willing to give those things up if the exploitation could be stopped or undone?<\/p>\n
If not, then now you know why exploitation and injustice exist.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s not much in the way of explicit religious themes in this episode \u2013 except for this one shot of what happens to Martha as she is working to stop what is going on.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n
There is no way to combat injustice and evil in the world that doesn\u2019t involve suffering.<\/p>\n
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