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Dennis Prager

Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in t

Dennis Prager

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Dennis Prager is saying that while idealized personal lives might make individuals feel unhappy, trying to make an entire society fit a perfect ideal can lead to terrible harm. He argues that the worst evils in history have come from people using force to reshape society according to these unrealistic visions.

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