Alexandr Korol

ing you. They say to you, “Listen, let’s buy this broken-down car for a hundred dollars and sell it for a three thousand. We’ll glue it together like in the film “Matilda” and sell it for three”. You have to say: “No, I won’t do that.” You want to do it, you can do it, but I can’t do it. They’ll say to you, “Let’s sue the company that sold us a faulty bar of chocolate”. And you should say, “It’s still a sin, it’s aggression, it’s not good. Well, it’s a faulty bar of chocolate. But it’s not the owner’s fault. It may have got lost somewhere in the warehouse, or it may have expired somewhere else”. Well, you’ve noticed, and it’s good that you’ve noticed that the bar of chocolate is defective, and you haven’t eaten it. But to use it to put a company out of business and write all over the internet that this company is bad because of a bar of chocolate is a sin. Because a lot of people work in that company, they feed their children and their relatives, they get their wages there. And the boss has nothing to do with it. And when you do that, you blacken your heart and your soul. This means that we should avoid conflicts, clashes and provocations; we should soften and smooth the edges of everything. If some- one wants to argue and have a conflict, you take a more neutral position. They say to you, “This country has a bad president”. You say, “Well, all people have weaknesses and they live in different countries. Let’s just say there are some bad sheep like in every the family. It happens.” You don’t add fuel to the fire, but you soften the situation so that it doesn’t flare up. Take a neutral position everywhere. They say to you, “That neighbour is bad”. You say, “Imagine if it were me. Suppose I was born a fool like that neighbour and behaved like that. Then people and other neighbours would say I’m a fool. You would probably be offended if your son was like that and everyone said that about him. And they say to you, “Yes, well, it must be sad for the family that they have that fool”. And you say, “That’s what I’m saying. If he is a fool, we should feel sorry for them. That’s OK. We know our neighbour is a fool, but what about his family who got such a fool”. That’s a wise position, you know? And it is necessary for you to be an example to everyone in a fair and kind way. But it doesn’t mean that you have to be the first to go somewhere. That’s all. It’s selfish to want to thumb your nose at how right you are. No, I’m not saying that. What I mean is that if you are going to do something now, you should be an example of a fair, correct, kind, humble human being in whatever situation you are in. And not like a flock of sheep who give in to everything. If everyone at school starts throwing chewing gum at a girl,