How seriously do you take the Law of One? How has it effected you?

[Jade]

I just politely ask the mosquitoes not to bother me. Then usually if I get bit, I barely notice, and my body processes the "toxin" they release very quickly so I don't even have a reaction. I've been camping/hiking through clouds of mosquitoes but I can't remember the last time I had a "mosquito bite". I feel like it's hard to deny serving a hungry being who isn't really asking for much at all.

Anyway, your catalyst Patrick reminds me of this Tolstoy quote:

[W]hen force is used against one who has not yet carried out his evil intent, I can never know which would be greater--the evil of my act of violence or of the act I want to prevent. We kill the criminal that society may be rid of him, and we never know whether the criminal of to-day would not have been a changed man tomorrow, and whether our punishment of him is not useless cruelty. We shut up the dangerous--as we think--member of society, but the next day this man might cease to be dangerous and his imprisonment might be for nothing. I see that a man I know to be a ruffian is pursuing a young girl. I have a gun in my hand--I kill the ruffian and save the girl. But the death or the wounding of the ruffian has positively taken place, while what would have happened if this had not been I cannot know. And what an immense mass of evil must result, and indeed does result, from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen. Ninety- nine per cent of the evil of the world is founded on this reasoning--from the Inquisition to dynamite bombs, and the executions or punishments of tens of thousands of political criminals.