Every human being is the sum of decisions they have made — and decisions made by everyone else. We are all born in a time and a place. When and where and to whom we are born determines the scope of decisions available to us. Then there are the wild cards that are thrown in. Ecclesiastes 9:11 says it like this, “Again I saw that under the sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the intelligent, nor favor to the men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.â€

Every decision that we make as a society will have benefits for some and will harm others. Sometimes the harm comes to our neighbors, sometimes it falls on people in other nations toward whom we seldom give thought. It is not that we should feel guilty about this inadvertent harm but perhaps we should at least consider it a possibility.

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