ADVICE: for a while, I was mad with grief, but grief is not alien from the Tao, and so I ask . . .

You are the first Taoist I have met -- and I have known many over the years -- the first to argue essentially that slavery in the Old South and the Holocaust with its Dauchau and other locations were never an atrocity or horror but merely something I disagreed with. You are also the first Taoist I have met to argue essentially that if I see a small child starving to death in the streets I am witnessing a sacred course that I can not change and that the only response I should have to the starving child is to change my attitude and not, say, give her a sandwich so that she is no longer starving.

That does not seem to align with Lao-Tzu's writings, however, nor those of Chuang-Tzu, but perhaps your translation is more current than is mine?

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