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 yeah, i think that is an important point, goodness is not a machinery, or strategy, it is the action itself, and the spirit of the action, which of course can fail, but when judged according to what was knowable can be said to be the right decision for the actor in spite of the result

it is the most difficult thing of all, that ever present uncertainty that one is taking the right path, when information may be concealed from you in order to enable evil to prevail for a time 
 then probably there the hint that the shorter the life of experience the closer to the old ways of language (?) at least, in terms of having knowledge, of ourselves and place... indeed as life of experience evolves the shoring of measurement systems got firmly so the world keeps turning... 
 yes, like how the Bitcoin protocol ensures the data can never be changed

what happened, happened, and we can move forward because we didn't let it be forgotten