A quote that stood out to me in chapter four was on page 27, "Injustice and irrationality are inevitable parts of the human condition, but that challenges to them are inevitable also". I see a lot of truth in this statement, and also a call to action. Looking at the world around you, unjust or unfair actions happen all the time. There is no such thing as a world where everything is perfect, so obviously there are going to be faults in the decisions made. So as Hitchens said, injustice is "inevitable", but that doesn't mean we should accept everything that goes wrong. If no one took a stand against injustice, then there would be no such thing as justice. Hitchens points out that even when things aren't perfect in the world, the only way things are going to get better is if people challenge the injustice.
This same idea appears in another quote from chapter four on page 32, "In rejecting Perfectionism, I don't want you to fall into the opposite error, which is that of taking human nature just as you find it". This reinforces the idea that humans actually don't want to live in a perfect world. If everything were perfect, then perfect would become normal and nothing would be extraordinary. But if one accepts that the world isn't perfect and proceeds to accept everything as it is, then there would be no progress. It is the people that chose to change or improve the world around them that made an impact on the world, and everyone needs to strive to be like those people.
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