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How to Make Everyone Happy?
(Translated and shortened from A. & B. Strugatsky )

A Child An Adult

• Begin with abundance—bread, wine, and -The strong will take from the weak what was
shelter for all, and the world will grow gentle. given, and the weak will still be beggars
• Then shield the weak and give wisdom to the - Cruelty is strength. Strip it away, and others
cruel. just as cruel will rise
• Then strike the cruel so the strong learn -Punish one, and the strongest of the weak will
mercy. become cruel in his place
• Then give all that is needed and forbid the -Then they will forget labor, lose their will, and I
taking. will keep them as helpless creatures

• Then grant slowly, let them learn by steps. -They will take what they desire long before they
learn

• Then awaken in them a love for work and -To change their hearts so deeply is to erase who
knowledge above all things. they are and make another race

• Then reshape us into something better—or -I cannot erase you. My heart is full of pity, and I
leave us to our own road. will let you go

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