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256. The point being that sometime you are obliged to be
a hero. Mile Pelehac and Franborough Air Show provide the
background for the VN diagram that I have sketched on the
board. That is the justification for the course. That
is the justification of behavior when you intend to go in
harm's way. It is selfish to seek your own way. Joe did well
with three prisoner stories: one, Socrates in his leg irons
in the death scene; two, Boethius, who carried the Aristotilian
scholarship through the Middle Ages, the guy that had the woman
philosophy appear in the prison cell with theoretical and
practical embroidered on her pockets; and the third was from
Plato's Republic, the "Allegory of the Cave".

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